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Although Arenas played high school ball in Los Angeles, backyard power UCLA didn't recruit him. So he dashed to the desert--the University of Arizona--where he took the number 0--in his mind, the number of minutes his doubters thought he would play as a freshman. After helping the Wildcats reach the NCAA championship game in 2001, Arenas watched every team bypass him in the first round of the NBA draft. He cried. "The teams in this league said no to Gilbert Arenas," says an amazed Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson--whose team didn't have...
...season was a four-and-a-half-year senior. Our star earned his degree in biology and earned his stripes in basketball through years of improvement. Other schools perpetually renew their stars and stalwarts and head into each season with a fresh crop of highly-touted freshmen. Duke, UNC, Arizona, and UCLA fans out there (I know you’ve somehow made it into Harvard) might be dumbfounded by this, but I’m happy that the stars of Crimson sports almost always stick it out through four years here, even when Cambridge is far from where their...
...them, it may be internalizing the most serious threat to its existence. Other Israelis believe that their country may be inviting its destruction by leaving the territories. The two positions are poles of the national debate. Still, Americans might find it difficult to live with 100 million Russians inhabiting Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. By the year 2010, the Arab population of Israel, plus the territories, will have risen to rough parity with the Jewish population. Herein lies Israel's biggest dilemma. When the virtues of Israel are enumerated, almost the first to be mentioned by Israelis and their...
...Politics, and Public Policy. The first event of the series, “Campaign 2008: Looking Ahead,” will be held March 5 and is billed to feature advisers from the campaigns of Republican candidates including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. Advisers from the Democratic contenders Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, and Sen. Barack H. Obama of Illinois will participate in the following event, scheduled for March 19. IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen said the institute...
...Steve Jobs and his team at Apple would invent a little device that could clip to a soldier's belt and trip every electronic trigger for improvised explosive devices within a couple of hundred meters, then I would really be impressed. Dean M. Brayton Gold Canyon, Arizona...