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...lionization of Ali is truly amazing. Whenever I hear of him, I think of a Vietnam-era draft dodger and an egomaniac. Ali spent a large part of his life trying to beat out other men's brains in a barbaric activity known as prizefighting. Sadly, his opponents tried to do the same to him, and he has paid a big price for this. His "heroism" is more the media's creation than the general public's opinion. The events of recent months tell us what real heroism is all about. JAMES PULLEN St. Louis...
According to McCarthy, the drafting of the petition was “a collaborative effort.” A group that did not include McCarthy worked to draft the petition last week. Altogether, McCarthy said, 10 or 12 people eventually had input into the petition...
Wurtzel is still moving in, so the apartment carries that quality of frenzied transition, laden with piles of books and records. Wurtzel offers to show me a draft for the trailer of Prozac Nation. It blinks on, dreamy and wordless, drifting on the sound of Lou Reed singing “Perfect...
...they took another dive, in part because of news that the draft included fewer than 40,000 genes--about 60,000 short of the number expected. After Sept. 11, biotech crashed along with the rest of the market, but it has lately risen resolutely. One reason is all the talk of bioterrorism and the need for remedies. But the other, more important one is that biotech firms, many of which survived for years on their promise, are increasingly turning into real businesses, with real managers, products and earnings...
...Hoop and Glory Spanish basketball star Pau Gasol, a first-round pick in the 2001 NBA draft, became leading scorer for the Memphis Grizzlies. But he was held to only six points against the Washington Wizards, whose faltering form was rescued by the return of creaking 38-year-old Michael Jordan...