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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...
...Germans, as they hand Clinton the International Charlemagne Prize for his contributions to world peace and European unity Friday, will complain that a "Star Wars"-type missile defense system could kick off a new multinational arms race and decouple America's and Europe's security interests by isolating the U.S. behind the shield of its dreams. Expect similar resistance at Clinton's weekend summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin: the pair may finalize a deal to each destroy 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, but White House aides are setting expectations very, very low on the Star Wars discussions...
...years, but no one belabored the obvious. Giuliani stopped wearing his wedding ring; he brought Nathan to the Times Square millennium bash on Dec. 31 and the St. Patrick's Day Parade in March, but the press reported nothing about her. So the mayor has no right to complain about the "salacious" media. He brought the trouble on himself, mostly by his treatment of Hanover. Simply put, what kind of man would hold a press conference to announce the end of his marriage without first coordinating it with his wife...
FREE-FOR-ALL It had to happen. Eager e-brokers have reduced the price of trading to zero. FinancialCafe.com Freetrade.com (an Ameritrade offshoot) and American Express are trying to reel in new customers by giving trades away. And who are we to complain? Zero beats the $5 a trade that even deep discounters like Brown & Co. charge--but there are some conditions. What's next? Free toasters...
...Congressional critics complain that the Europeans haven't met their financial commitments for the rebuilding of civil society in Kosovo, but the slow progress on that front may have more to do with the security situation than with funding. "There's no law and order, no judicial system, no functioning native police - it's a mess, and all of the peacekeeping forces are not making it work," says Calabresi. "It's not as if the U.S. is out there aggressively stabilizing Kosovo and pursuing nation-building. Congress isn't exactly pushing U.S. troops to go out and take risks...