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Jamal K. Greene's column on Charles Oakley and Latrell Sprewell (Sports, Jan. 20) lulls the reader into a false sense of security. Greene makes us think that the author understands what Oakley meant to New York sports fans and why the Sprewell trade is a tragedy for the Knicks...
Greene suggests that Oakley perennially led the league in personal fouls, but such an insinuation is blatantly false--last year Oakley barely cracked the top 10 and was well behind the league leaders. The column's earlier claim that Oakley led the league in flagrant fouls is similarly unjustified...
...column also misses the point about the Knick's acquisition of Sprewell. If Greene wants to focus only on the player's on-court merits, that's fine. But claiming that Sprewell is too undisciplined a shooter is more or less irrelevant--John Starks, who the Knicks gave up as part of the trade, was equally brick prone...
Rather than sympathizing with the oppressed, Oppenheim chooses to make them the butt of his feeble jokes. Of course, Oppenheim concludes his column by admitting that "this is probably poor advice," which begs the question why he bothered to give it in the first place. DAVID...
...avoidance of our problems has become the problem itself, and we can look forward to nothing better than more of the political pandering, simple mantras and stop-gap solutions that we have come to despise. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column will resume next semester...