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...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. You go to a Foot Locker--that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Shaquille O'Neal | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...Marshall noted, the day democracy in Southeast Asia may have the last laugh indeed "remains a long way off." But the Thai coup, while not an event worth celebrating, should not have been a shock and is not a blow to democracy in the region. Rather, it simply shows how little progress democracy has made in putting down roots since the last coup. Efforts to establish democracy in Thailand have failed because they have been imposed from the top. Nothing has been done to educate the people at the grass roots, thus leaving a very shaky foundation. The development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/28/2006 | See Source »

...Council of Masters, the deliberative body that has significant input on questions of House life, met last Wednesday to discuss the proposal. In a blow to undergraduates, the Masters decided to cancel the Thursday night’s parties. Now, instead of two consecutive nights of coordinated events, large parties will be confined to Friday evening, and will take place in the River and the Quad simultaneously...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Waking Up the Neighbors | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...gave him my Washington, D.C., drivers license, which he said he needed to keep at the checkpoint while I was inside. I was assured, however, that my I.D. would remain in a safe place, away from anyone who might be interested in learning my U.S. address so they could blow up my house. I thought of telling the sergeant that the address on the license was for an old apartment, which, last I heard, was being turned into luxury condominiums I couldn't afford. What did I care if some rich Washington developer lost a condo unit under construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kid on the (Baghdad) Block | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...recent blow-up between the Miami and Florida International football teams, which escalated into a full-scale brawl and 31 suspensions, overshadowed a fight between Holy Cross and Dartmouth players on the same...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAD ABOUT YOU: Zebras Making Crucial Mistakes | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

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