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...problems of the inner city have touched you recently, which is likely, then you must sense that something needs to happen. Reading Chuck D's and Hank Shocklee's media-hyped jabber in Spin and buying Kriss-Kross records does not solve anything--it just gives middle and upper-class consumers some temporary mental satisfaction about their own efforts to be good citizens...
Retired farmer James Law ('14) of Stuart, Iowa, sat in his wheelchair relishing the stories of playing on an undefeated football team and knowing the greatest school legend of all time: sprinter Chuck Hoyt ('14). Hoyt learned to run chasing ponies on his farm. "He was all legs," chuckled Law. Some legs. Hoyt took his first train ride when he was 14, to the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, swept the 100-m and 220-m dashes. He was asked to be on the 1912 Olympic team, but his widowed mother needed him home. Besides, she insisted...
Local residents seized on a creative response early one morning last May, when members of Pastor Chuck Chipman's congregation descended on a gang- infested neighborhood to rescue a 12-year-old boy being forced to work as a drug courier for a gang that was threatening him and his family. Before gang members could react, the entire family of four and all its belongings were whisked away to a safe house...
...Dream Teamers were up against other kinds of obstacles. Weren't they just All-Stars, coach Chuck Daly was constantly being asked, or merely Hollywood Globetrotters? Why did they dominate the spotlight here? Why did they not stay in the Olympic Village? One reason was that 7-ft. millionaires are not easy to hide, and everywhere they went, the American players were mobbed by the stars of a hundred nations eager to have their picture taken with them, or just to catch a touch of sympathetic magic. Even El Loco, when asked why he wore the number 32, referred...
...likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When Barkley threw an elbow at Angola's spindly David Dias in the U.S. team's first outing, he was quickly yanked offstage by director-coach Chuck Daly...