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...reviews. But the art world has never been enough to hold Hughes; he is one of the magazine's true Renaissance men. In 1987 he published The Fatal Shore, a best-selling, critically acclaimed history of the settling of his native Australia. Next month Knopf will bring out Barcelona, his account of the social and cultural history of the Spanish city. In the pages of TIME, Hughes has had his say on everything from motorcycling to gun control...
...Olympic team will hold together for next month's Winter Games in Albertville -- more or less. Athletes will compromise their national differences by marching together under the Olympic flag, and any victories they score will be marked by the Olympic anthem. The outlook for the Summer Games in Barcelona is even murkier. Russia has proposed a joint team there too; but Ukraine is balking, and several states are applying for separate membership in the International Olympic Committee. So none of the famous pair skaters or hockey and basketball teams have been broken up, but no one knows how they will...
...Barcelona did subsidize Llopis's educational expenses and offered him the opportunity to play with and against professionals over a two-year period, actions that are in clear violation of NCAA regulations...
Llopis, however, did not sign a contract with F.C. Barcelona to play basketball, nor did he take an agent, two actions that would have clearly shown intent to play professionally, Harvard contends...
Llopis especially took offense at insinuations that he was not a serious student in Barcelona...