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...their defense of the NBA title this week, and Shaq will be chasing his fifth championship (he had three with the Los Angeles Lakers in addition to the one last year with Miami). O'Neal, 34, called TIME's Sean Gregory to talk about the NBA's controversial new ball, his police ambitions and the coach he wants to see in a foxhole...
...using a new ball this year, and you've been a pretty vocal critic. The ball is terrible. It's something we'll just have to get used to. Playing with the new ball is like going to a gentlemen's club, seeing an exotic dancer and then going home and playing with a plastic blow-up doll. It's bad. A lot of these people are trying to make decisions for the NBA. It's just getting too corporate. There are too many rules that don't really make sense--for example, about our shorts being too long...
...home from the range. The chief financial officer of a hospitality company, for example, said he needed to "get more done more efficiently and faster, always faster." He was one of 12 men and four women, mostly in their 30s and 40s, who came from such companies as Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix. Someone else wanted to standardize a process at HP, a job he described as "impossible." A brilliant young entrepreneur from Massachusetts said he wanted to become a "better leader and communicator...
...Baker (Jimmy, as the President calls the longtime family consigliere) and Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the 9/11 commission. Administration officials say they expect the report no sooner than December, and they hope it includes recommendations they can embrace rather than a menu of options that would put the ball back in their court...
...only took 34 seconds for senior tailback Clifton Dawson to get on the board. He never looked back, and Harvard picked up a critical league win on a day when a league leader faltered. The Crimson star took the ball 74 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, giving Harvard (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) all the cushion it would need in shutting out Dartmouth (1-6, 0-3 Ivy) by a 28-0 margin in front of 2,028 cold and wet fans in Hanover, N.H. The Crimson struck again on its third possession, with freshman...