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...league basketball team in New York City: "Even at the high school level, drug dealers want to associate with athletes because they are a status symbol." John Lo-Schiavo, president of the University of San Francisco, says the problem can get worse in college. "When a kid gets national acclaim and looks like he's going to be a top draft choice and so forth, there's a tendency for the wrong element to latch onto that kid," he explains. "They like to reflect in the glory of the star and ingratiate themselves by saying...
...nomination. Rogers helped Nixon through the Checkers crisis, counseled the shaken Vice President when Ike had his heart attack in 1955. Rogers was Attorney General for Ike and Secretary of State for Nixon. His public career rivals almost any other living person's, but he never sought acclaim...
...This nation of artists is faced with the Western invasion, and I cannot stand idly by and watch their destruction," wrote Andre Roosevelt, introducing a book titled--what else?--The Last Paradise. That was in 1930. Fifty years later, thousands of visitors continue to "discover" Bali each year, acclaim it as a paradise and, once home, mourn that it is lost forever...
...retired architect of ten National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, including every one of them from 1967 to 1973. When Crum left UCLA for Louisville 15 years ago, his avowed plan was to win enough games so that, upon Wooden's valedictory, he could return to a complete acclaim. The winning has come easier than the acclaim...
...from the right. Nonetheless, he has cracked three hits in the same game off no less than Los Angeles Rival Fernando Valenzuela. "I'm lucky to have one hit in two years off him," grins Fernando, a grizzled veteran of 25. With quite a different pitch but a similar acclaim, Valenzuela arrived from Mexico on a screwball six years...