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...Kobe Bryant does more than they dream of doing what Shaq does," says NBC sports commentator Bob Costas of Bryant, O'Neal's telegenic 21-year-old teammate. "It's just human nature. They dream of doing what Michael Jordan did more than they dream of doing what Wilt Chamberlain...
Nobody roots for Goliath, Wilt Chamberlain once complained to teammate Jerry West. The reason, of course, is that in a world consisting by and large of Davids, we assume the Goliaths have it easy. If they dare complain, we search for slingshots. O'Neal's life, however, didn't start off so terribly comfortably. His biological father, he says, abandoned him and his mother Lucille when he was an infant. O'Neal wrote a caustic rap song about it in 1994 called Biological Didn't Bother. O'Neal's mother eventually married Philip Harrison, an Army staff sergeant, who imposed...
...thinks of itself as a sizable Italian-American neighborhood," says Pam R. Chamberlain, a lifelong Cantabrigian who has lived in the area since...
...adds that Strawberry Hill's old Italian families tend to forget the era when they were not the most numerous segment of the population. A 1903 map in her home shows most of the neighborhood's residents had Irish names, Chamberlain says...
...Chamberlain, who says strawberries were grown here in the 1800s, also says the community still feels separated from the city...