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LAST NOVEMBER, Earvin "Magic" Johnson brought goosebumps and chills to basketball fans around the world by announcing on live television that he had tested HIV-positive and would retire from professional basketball...
...After Earvin (Magic) Johnson's historic announcement last month that he had contracted the HIV virus, Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School might have been mistaken for the site of a regional AIDS education convention...
...free, but there is a price for the life-style. In the Nov. 18 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Earvin ("Magic") Johnson attests that he contracted the virus that causes AIDS, and which forced his premature retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, "by having unprotected sex with a woman who has the virus." And who was that woman? Magic does not know. "Before I was married," he wrote, "I truly lived the bachelor's life . . . As I traveled around N.B.A. cities, I was never at a loss for female companionship . . . After I arrived in L.A. in 1979, I did my best...
Even outside the world of sports, Mr. Showtime's enormous smile and unquenchable grace have become almost ubiquitous -- on music video shows, on billboards, at fund-raising dinners. For more than a decade, Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. has commanded the world of entertainment on the court and off with an irreplaceable blend of poise and surprise...
...AMERICAN HERO has been stricken with the AIDS virus. Twenty-four hours after having tested positive for the HIV-virus, Earvin "Magic" Johnson stepped forward and disclosed to the world that he was leaving professional basketball. It is difficult to overestimate the impact of Magic's unbelievably courageous announcement...