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...chaos theory, although some hope is forming on the margins. Much of the continent has turned into a battleground of contending dooms: AIDS and overpopulation, poverty, starvation, illiteracy, corruption, social breakdown, vanishing resources, overcrowded cities, drought, war and the homelessness of war's refugees. Africa has become the basket case of the planet, the "Third World of the Third World," a vast continent in free fall...
...Celtics to an N.B.A. championship that included two tense overtime victories over the Lakers and his friend Magic Johnson. In the 1987 eastern conference finals, with one second left and the Celtics down 107-106, Bird intercepted a Detroit ball and passed off for the winning basket. Said he: "I could take my game to the next level just on the roar of the crowd." In the constellation of athletes who helped propel the N.B.A. to record popularity and profitability in the past decade, Bird will be linked with his Dream Team comrades Magic and Michael Jordan as the brightest...
...dawdle, fall behind and wait until it is too late to mount a rally. Hey, chill out, replies Jordan. "We have too much talent, and we'll turn it on whenever we have to." Daly frets that the three-point shooting line in international basketball is closer to the basket than in the N.B.A. and that the lane is wider, both tending to nullify the Americans' height advantage. However, after seeing how little difference these factors made in his team's 136-57 loss to the Yanks, Cuban coach Miguel Gomez seemed transported to a Zen mode. "One finger cannot...
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, the first woman to be chief editor of the respected journal Commonweal, sees no doctrinal reason to prevent women priests. But big "anthropological and psychological barriers" stand in the way, she observes, so "I'm not going to put all my eggs in that basket." Better for now, she thinks, to seize the opportunities for nonordained women to hold positions of administrative power and intellectual influence...
...article: "Peru? Where the hell is Peru? Well, it was first found by Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swinerherd. It's west of Brazil and north of Chile. First faltering democracy on your right. You can't miss it...It's a messy society...and the economy is a basket case..." The naive geographical description fails to do justice to the fourth largest Latin American nation, homeland of the Inca Empire, the most advanced civilization in pre-Hispanic America. In fact, most of the population takes its roots from the Incas, not the Spaniards...