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...seizures." Robert Tobias, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, complains that the guidelines imply federal workers are "potential cheats." Says Tobias, whose union has succeeded at least temporarily, in forcing the U.S. Customs Service to halt its drug- testing program: "This is a comic exercise in Ty-D-bol justice...
...sounds serious, it's not. Only a fool would believe that Godzilla, as he tackles another 30-floor skyscraper, is anything more than a sexually repressed monster who happens to be stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger and taller than Manute Bol...
Unlike Perry, Bol is a player basically in training who the Bullets hope will block a few shots as he goes. "He has had a binding effect," says Bob Ferry, the general manager who drafted Bol in the second round. "Unconsciously, and sometimes consciously, even 'team' players seldom worry about anyone else as much as themselves. But Manute has been a focal point of selflessness. They love him." So, it appears, do the fans at every station...
...celebrities are cadged for autographs, but Bol is forever beseeched just to stand up. "Can't," he demurs occasionally. "Leg broke." When he is on his feet, stares are unavoidable. "I am a good-looking guy," he agrees kindly. "What size shoes do you wear?" strangers wonder. "You want to buy me a pair?" he smiles. They are only 15 1/2s. Bol's ebony brow may appear furrowed, but those are scratches from a puberty rite that, more than the sleeping lion he once killed with a spear, confirmed his courage. He laughs easily when his spindly fingers wrap twice...
...says. "Some cruelty, but nothing hurts my feelings because I feel comfortable. Except in Cleveland, where I catch cold. Ah-ha-ha. Because God made me this way, I'm not mad. I have fun all the time. Oh man, I just want to be a good basketball player." Bol's regimen for gaining weight is as oppressive as Perry's diet, though they are closing on each other cautiously. Perry says, "I don't want to be too thin." Bol says, "I don't want to be too fat." Their grace per pound is the amazement. In lateral-movement...