RICHARD D. KUHN Staten Island Glorifying Brutality To the Sports Editor: Re "Mighty, Yet Measured," April 21: Words like greatest, talent and champion were used to describe the mixed martial arts fighter Jon Jones.
And as in his earlier "American Buffalo" (to be revived on Broadway later this season) and "Glengarry Glen Ross," talk is rich, even when it sounds cheap: a mighty means of measuring and asserting power, of confirming one's place in the scheme of things.
Jim Crow and segregation were clearly evil by any reasonable measure, and mighty few were the whites in the region who refused to support it.
They are only the most recent in a line of officials who have single-mindedly promoted the interests of Japanese business -- particularly those of the mighty Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, by many measures Japan's most formidable company and long its telephone monopoly.
"" (O mighty love, O love beyond all measure) is stanza 7 of Johann Heermann's 1630 hymn "".
Just how far the mighty Soviet economy fell can be measured with a number: officially Russia's gross domestic product last year was about $300 billion.
But the outside lane can give him a clear shot at the homestretch, which measures 1,174 feet, rather short for horses like Mighty who win with late rallies.
And now, bring on the mighty Chicago Cubs, baseball's best team this season by every statistical measure, waiting to duel the Dodgers in a best-of-seven National League ChampionSerieseries beginning Saturday in Chicago.
In recent weeks, MySpace has gone from the 14th most popular site in the world to eighth, a mighty jump in the World Wide Web space, where traffic is measured on logarithmic scales when absolute ranking is involved.
He is, indeed, the mightiest of the world's central bankers, an influential group by any measure.
