NEWARK — At 9 p.m. on a wet Saturday, mixed martial arts opened its case to join the mainstream.
The Big East received three No. 1 seeds in last year's N.C.A.A. tournament, and the Mountaineers are making a compelling case to join Syracuse as a No. 1 seed this year.
The result is a sea of milquetoast advertisements, with brands fastening their identities to anodyne, dream-journal abstractions like "community" and "craftsmanship," urging their fans and acolytes to "be more" or "dream bigger" or, in Pepsi's case, to "join the conversation".
Like so many born-and-bred New Yorkers, Dion truly began to find himself only when he left the city -- in his case to join the legendary "Winter Dance Party Tour" that would end tragically when a small plane carrying Dion's fellow headliners, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, crashed near Mason City, Iowa, on Feb. 3, 1959.
Spotify's head of design Rasmus Andersson is also leaving, in this case to join Facebook.
They were also one of only two clubs - along with London Welsh - who had submitted a case to join the Premiership.
The inevitable irony here is the idea that Japan's recent efforts to better enable its military response could strengthen its case to join the world's preeminent peacemaking body.
The decision, which could be announced as soon as Wednesday, would increase the number of US training sites in Anbar from four to five and enable a larger number of Iraqis — mostly Sunni tribal volunteers, in this case — to join the fight against the militant group.
A slip stitch is a small, flat utility stitch used, in this case, to join a ring.
