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DIED. NAT HOLMAN, 98, basketball coach; in New York City. Master of the "New York game," with its asphalt-playground emphasis on defense, passing and team strategy, Holman engineered City College of New York's unique twin National Invitation Tournament and ncaa championships in the 1949-50 season. A year later, the triumph was tarnished by the arrest of several of Holman's players in a point-shaving scandal...
...MOST VILIFIED EXPANSE OF asphalt in the history of the universe is, almost certainly, the Washington Beltway. Whereas most municipal freeways are associated with fairly mundane evils -- potholes, rush-hour traffic -- the Beltway has come to symbolize nothing less than a looming threat to American democracy. It is the great invisible buffer, impermeable to communication, that separates the nation's capital from the nation. It is what keeps many politicians -- the ones with an "inside the Beltway" mentality -- out of touch with the needs of the citizenry. It is the reason Washington's "media elites" are so clueless...
...that seven-year-old boy who was hit in the face by a sniper's bullet in the middle of Sarajevo, holding on to his mother's hand as they ran past a U.N. armored personnel carrier. As the boy lay dying, his face was turned toward the asphalt, his left hand raised to his head, soaked in his blood. His name was Nermin Divovic. He wasn't killed by surprise, by a shell. He was sought out by a Serb sniper who waited, got him into his telescopic sights, looked at his face and then pulled the trigger. Then...
...school administrators and coaches as well as those of parents and siblings. At the start of the film we sense the same excitement and anticipation that both boys do--William and Arthur appear to be incredibly talented, and both are sought out by scouts who cruise urban Chicago's asphalt looking for skilled young players...
...surrounding Bill Clinton's witness-for-peace visit to the Middle East was almost too perfect. At the desert border crossing where he met Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to co-sign their treaty of friendship, the table was set up on an asphalt strip in the middle of a minefield. An area had been paved and fenced in specifically for the ceremony. "Walk 15 yards beyond that barbed wire," a U.S. Secret Service agent warned onlookers, "and you won't be coming back...