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Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...
More important, they are too busy worrying about one another. Donn Nelson, a coach with the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors, who is assisting the Lithuanian team, says, "There are two totally different events. When the U.S. plays, it is more of an entertainment. When the other teams play, it is very exciting. Anybody can win." Petar Skansi, the thoughtful coach of the Croatian team, has a slightly different perspective. "No one wants to beat the Dream Team," he says. "It would be bad for the sport because they are clearly the best. Maybe someone will beat them...
...uncertainty." Anything can happen, as Carril's teams have proved season after remarkable season against superior opposition. But not this superior. "This is not a great team," says Carril. "This is the greatest team ever." Don Nelson, the + shrewd and artful coach of the Golden State Warriors, whose son Donn is helping to coach Marciulionis and the Lithuanians, agrees. "The once-in-a- lifetime game is not going to happen," he says. "The Dream Team will not allow any second shots. Even if the Americans play poorly, there shouldn't be a close game. They haven't even tried...
Dennis Lamp (3-5), Boston's fourth pitcher, was unable to hold Chicago in the 11th after the Red Sox failed to score with the bases loaded and two out in the 10th against Donn Pall (3-5). Ellis Burks flied out to end the inning after an intentional walk to Wade Boggs...
...made more dependable by imposing the kind of discipline on programmers that engineering standards impose on, say, bridge designers. A program like AT&T's faulty switching system, however, which can contain a million lines of code, is more complex than any bridge. "Standards have not been developed," says Donn Parker, a senior management consultant at SRI International. "Software is not predictable...