Word: developable
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...kind of flair WUSA needs more of. These women have been coached extensively since they were kids. "Sometimes we get too technical," says Milbrett. "Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime." That last part alludes to Milbrett's upbringing. Raised in a single-parent household in Portland, Ore. with an older brother, Milbrett had to be a little more independent than other kids...
...Milbrett isn't just carrying the Power on her back. The stars of the WUSA, including Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Julie Foudy, were instrumental in the league's creation. This is their legacy, and they work ceaselessly to develop the league. This year, although attendance is off a bit, the financials have improved. There are more paying customers at full price, and sponsorship is increasing...
...complete; in the northeast of the country, Northern Alliance forces led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, a legendary guerrilla leader who had fought against the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan in the 1980s, were still resisting Taliban rule. Clarke argued that Massoud should be given the resources to develop a viable fighting force. That way, terrorists leaving al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan would have been forced to join the Taliban forces fighting in the north. "You keep them on the front lines in Afghanistan," says a counterterrorism official. "Hopefully you're killing them in the process, and they...
...airing Meet My Folks, a reality rip-off of the movie Meet the Parents in which Mom and Dad grill their children's suitors using a lie detector--and the suitors quiz Mom and Dad about their sex lives. "We just want people to have a good time and develop some insights into the parent-child relationship," says Jeff Gaspin, the executive in charge of NBC reality programming. On ABC's upcoming The Dating Experiment, a couple undertakes challenges--spend a night together on Alcatraz, follow a 412-mile-long string--designed to bring the two closer. Next season...
DIED. W.W. LAW, 79, president of the Savannah, Ga., chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. from 1950 to '76, who engineered desegregation of the city and later helped develop a museum dedicated to the area's civil rights movement; in Savannah. He chose to be known by his initials so it would be harder for people to demean him by calling him by his first name...