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Daily Archives: June 14th, 2010

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Monday, June 14, 2010

1. How Did Sport Get So Big? (moreintelligentlife.com) “On a long July afternoon in 1966, in north-west London, England’s footballers won the World Cup. By the time they beat West Germany, after extra time, with the help of a dubious goal, it was too late for the early editions of the Sunday papers. Only on [...]

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Monday, June 14, 2010

1. The Sure Thing (gladwell.com) “In 1969, Ted Turner wanted to buy a television station. He was thirty years old. He had inherited a billboard business from his father, which was doing well. But he was bored, and television seemed exciting. “He knew absolutely nothing about it,” one of Turner’s many biographers, Christian Williams, writes [...]

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