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...Boeheim, the game will be a chance to refute critics who say he is an underachieving coach who despite a wealth of talent has never won anything important. The Syracuse coach last went to the championship game in 1987 with a hugely talented team lead by future NBA star Derrick Coleman, only to lose to Indiana on a last second shot by Keith Smart. On the other side is another man who has never won a national championship, but earned a reputation as an excellent coach after taking a lightly regarded Providence team to the Final Four. Yet Pitino...
Dyson is one of a group of contemporary black writers, including bell hooks, Cornel West and Derrick Bell, who are forging what might be called a new canon of inclusion. While celebrating black identity, Dyson seeks connections with other minority groups, such as feminists, gays and Latinos. The O.J. Simpson trial was seen by many as a symbol of racial strife; Dyson sees some hope. "Its major players are a virtual rainbow of color, gender, ethnicity, and class," he says. "Judge Lance Ito is Asian-American. Johnnie Cochran is African-American. Marcia Clark is a white woman. And Robert Shapiro...
...DERRICK BELL AUTHOR OF FACES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL AND CONFRONTING AUTHORITY...
This theme of race abandonment and being a traitor is echoed by Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe and columnist Molly Ivins. In a recent column ("Questioning Powell's beliefs," op-ed, Sept. 27) Jackson says that Powell "ate political caviar" while "the people in his sea of black and Hispanic faces were being told that ketchup was a vegetable, their mothers were welfare queens and the quintessential criminal in America was black rapist Willie Horton," and that Powell "is but an instrument for white people to feel smug about solving racism...
...Derrick Coleman netted 36 as the Nets beat the Orlando Magic, 108-99. Page...