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Holyfield spent time last week in Atlanta being treated finally with the respect he keeps earning but never quite gets. "I would like to help Tyson," he told TIME. "But you'll never really get healthy until you talk to yourself." From a distance, the crescent-shaped bite made by Tyson's incisors is barely noticeable. And from close up, neither is Holyfield's resentment, if he feels any. He has no plans to sue Tyson, who is facing penalties from all directions. "His attitude," says Holyfield, "caused him to lose everything he'd gathered...
...genius leaps across the centuries. When he seeks explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates...
...launched White Stallion in May 1995 after two sailors based in Naples were arrested as they arrived at the Rome airport with 6 kg of Turkish heroin, expecting, as military personnel, not to be searched by customs. The sailors turned out to be couriers for Nigerians plying the Golden Crescent heroin trail. That route begins in the opium fields of Afghanistan, runs through refineries in Turkey and then the wholesaling hubs of Italy and terminates in needle parks throughout Western Europe...
...difficult situation is made even more unpleasant because, according to custom, Ogwama should automatically become the wife of her brother-in-law. Ogwama refuses this unfair fate (evidently, she is a firm believer of the love match) and shortly thereafter inspires the scary wrath of Odibei (Crescent Muhammad '97), her mother-in-law. Odibei is especially interested in shuttling Ogwama to her eagerly awaiting son, since the marriage to her other son did not produce offspring. Unless you're an insensitive ogre, after about the first half-hour your sympathies lie with Ogwama and Uloko; you root for their love...
...selection, entitled "Red Shoes." Solos by Ryan Kisor and Sherman Irby, and impressive clarinet work by Victor Goines took the energy of the band up to another level. The first half ended with two New Orleans-inspired pieces. First was Marsalis's "Slow Drag," a programmatic piece about the Crescent City after hours. Wycliffe Gordon's trombone growls exemplified the grit of New Orleans bordellos and, despite the dirge tempo, the piece thankfully did not live up to its name. Closing that set was "Second Line" from Ellington's New Orleans Suite...