More depressing for the purists is that I only see four ways to reverse the trend: (1) State legislative subsidies to keep a state-supported school within the existing conference due to other state schools they play and revenue retention from those games (2) private business subsidies, (3) donations from the general public and high net worth individuals, or (4) a conscious decision to deemphasize sports.

FORBES: Maryland and Rutgers Move to Big Ten: Savvy Realignment or Priorities Misalignment.

And although he has said that he will work to elect - to keep Republican retention of the New York State Senate.

NPR: Political Junkie: Three Weeks to Pennsylvania

She won her retention election to the California State Supreme Court easily in 1998, having been endorsed by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, hardly conservative bastions.

ECONOMIST: George Bush's judges

Its peace policy is now hardly distinguishable from that of Kadima or indeed Meretz: a two-state solution based on the 1967 border, with land swaps and the retention of the bigger Jewish settlement blocks, as outlined by Mr Barak when he was prime minister from 1999-2001.

ECONOMIST: The party of the old establishment is dying under Ehud Barak