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...comes back, as it so often does, to Dec. 1, 1997, when Sprewell throttled Carlesimo. He then left the building, drove away, came back, went into practice and took a swing at the coach. It has been reported that Sprewell's explosion was in response to some criticism from Carlesimo, a man noted for his perfectionism and intensity. Neither Sprewell nor Carlesimo has spoken about exactly what was said in the moments before the attack. Ironically, Carlesimo, the victim, is out of the NBA, having been fired as coach of the sinking Warriors. (Many things are pardoned in pro sports...
DIED. PHAM VAN DONG, 94, Vietnam's tough and erudite Prime Minister for three decades during the war against the U.S. and the country's subsequent reunification; in Hanoi. A founder of the Viet Minh and an architect of the communist revolution that drove out the French colonials in 1954, he became communist chief Ho Chi Minh's steadfast administrative workhorse...
Windows never would have gained popularity and reached critical mass without the benefits of innovative, user-friendly technologies developed by our Office team--technologies that often then became part of Windows and further drove innovation across the industry. For example, in 1991 software developers for Microsoft Office introduced a new feature known as a toolbar. We now take toolbars for granted. If you are reading this article online on a Windows PC, the toolbar is the series of icons at the foot of your screen that with one click allows you to switch from your browser to your word processor...
...These people have a strong belief in a value system and see themselves as moral people, yet they are neither bitter nor aggressive towards those who do not share their beliefs. It is in this manner that religion has taken hold in this country, and it this spirit which drove the Founding Fathers to create "One Nation Under...
...particularly disturbed by Bush's South Carolina campaign--his failure to take a position on the Confederate flag flying above the state capitol, and his stop at Bob Jones University. Both hit home for the Powell family. As a young soldier, Powell and his wife often drove through the state in the early '60s, when the Stars and Bars was raised in defiance of new civil rights laws. And Powell's son Michael married a white woman--a practice well outside Bob Jones' newly abandoned edict against interracial dating. Recently it has been Bush's former rival that Powell...