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...Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter of one of Atlanta's most powerful white businessmen, Inman Armholster, who happens to be Charlie...
Since those giddy days, Muhammad Ali, ne Cassius Clay, has done two things nobody thought possible: he has finally stopped talking, and he has become universally popular. Those who know him now only as a benign, spectral presence at sports events and testimonial ceremonies can have no idea how much noise this man once made or what confusion he sowed in some people's heads. Previous athletes had been loved or hated, and that was that, but Ali had been both at the same time. Half of you wanted to see his head handed to him, the other half sort...
...Remnick tells it, Clay learned the uses of confusion by age 12, when he tied on his first gloves and discovered that his mother Odessa's serenity combined with his daddy Cassius Sr.'s maddening braggadocio sold tickets, captivated journalists and drove opponents clear up the wall. The phrase "I am the greatest" seems to have been almost Ali's first words, but the joke was that the words were absolutely true. The sweet little motormouth from Louisville, Ky., was about to become the greatest fighter in history, fast as a flyweight, strong...
Texas Club Co-President Clay B. Cowan '99 said the organization may attempt to help with relief efforts. "If we do, it will be through our alumni groups, but we have to wait to find out what's going on down there," he said...
...first site, a Taino village on the northern coast of Cuba now known as Los Buchillones, has been protected from decay in a layer of clay at the bottom of a shallow lagoon. Last May a Canadian-Cuban team discovered the nearly intact remains of a Taino dwelling buried in the muck. It has since located the foundation of as many as 40 structures, most likely a combination of communal buildings, outbuildings and single-family houses. The site is so extensive, says David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, that "there's no doubt that a regional chief...