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This morning I watched the Tulas vs UCF football game. After about so many useless camera shots I decided to keep score of the number of camera shots in just 10 minutes of the second half. CAMERA SHOTS: OTHER (INCLUDES REPLAYS, GRAPHICS, REPORTERS) 47 SHOTS CHEERLEADERS...................................13 CROWD AND STUPID LOOKING FRUITCAKE FANS........44 FOOTBALL PLAYER CLOSEUP'S AFTER PLAY..........101 REF CLOSEUPS...................................12 SIDELINES......................................52 TALKING TO DIGNATRIES 3MINUTES DURING PLAY......1 GAME ACTION FULL FIELD PLAYS...................47 I do not know about some of you but the narrow scope of the on-screen picture is enough to make a grown man make a post to this forum....

HAVANA - Cuba passed the one-year anniversary of Fidel Castro's withdrawal from power without official mention of the fact on Tuesday — but Castro published an essay proclaiming Cuba's victories at the Pan American games were a triumph for the revolution. "On 59 occasions we heard the spirited notes of the Cuban National Anthem playing — in spite of everything!" Castro wrote in the latest of a series of columns, referring to the 59 gold medals the country won during the hemispheric competition in Rio de Janeiro — second only to the United States. Castro, who turns 81 on Aug....

VANCOUVER - Suppose for a second that the following were true: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has declined to offer the support of Canada to the United States in respect of the Iraq war chiefly because the population of Quebec is overwhelmingly opposed to said war. Just suppose. What would one think of that? In posing such a fundamental question one must establish some ground for believing the proposition, and we have no direct testimony. Jean Chrétien has not said, "I am prepared to see Canada suffer the inevitable trade and economic losses that will be visited upon us as a...