Word: alie
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...opportunity to make millions of dollars by entertaining sports fans is a privilege, not a right, and moral principles should be part of it. Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier are real role models. Show the nonconformists like Mike Tyson [SPORT, July 14], Dennis Rodman and Roberto Alomar that when you are given this privilege and you lose control and "snap," you permanently lose the opportunity to compete. Teach these bad apples a lesson they can never forget: one snap and you're out. It would be a good lesson too for all the kids who look...
...ARTIST Formerly Known as Prince doesn't allow his interviews to be recorded. The Fighter Still Known as the Greatest has difficulty speaking. So when it came to publicizing a concert the two are organizing for the MUHAMMAD ALI World Healing Project, it was hard to decide who should do the talking. Eventually the Artist consented to answer questions posed on the phone to someone else and then relayed to him. Ali's cause appealed to him, he explained, because of the champ's "truth and compassion," and because it's dedicated to fighting bigotry. "When...
Pippen is right. Jordan is the greatest athlete in the history of American sports, Muhammad Ali's nickname to the contrary. If the criterion is dominance in a sport, then Jordan's nine scoring titles is testament enough. If team success is the crucial factor, then Jordan's five championships in seven years--thanks to his 39 points in Game 6 on Friday night--trumps everyone who wasn't a Celtic or a Yankee. Jordan's only competition, really, is Ruth. Bobby Mattick, the 86-year-old scout for the Toronto Blue Jays, says, "Bill Essick, who signed Joe DiMaggio...
This has created a situation that Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Ali S. Asani calls "a very delicate balance...
...system may ultimately paralyze Khatami. He calls himself an independent, although he is a member of a clerical group aligned with leftists, including those who held American diplomats hostage for 444 days in 1979-81. Khatami's advisers say he hopes to benefit from a partnership with outgoing President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who will remain a major influence as head of the Expediency Council, which advises the Supreme Leader...