Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tutoring. He says the real problem was that Reggie failed to apply himself. "Abe Lincoln and them people were self-taught," he said. But Reggie's teachers say he did try, he struggled to overcome a third-grade reading level, fought off the exhaustion of practice and in the end succumbed to the realization that he could not catch up. "He was hoping against hope," says Jack Carmichael, who heads the school's social sciences program. "Goddam, he deserved it. He wanted to have the initiative to make up the deficiency, but I'm not sure he could ever have...
Such reforms could help end the exploitation and hypocrisy that now sully the game of college basketball, as well as other sports. That would be good for the schools and good for sport. If colleges and universities assumed their responsibility as institutions of higher learning and if sports programs were kept in perspective, more student athletes might turn out like Fred Brown. Fred grew up on the gritty streets of the South Bronx. His father was taken off to prison when the boy was in third grade. His mother worked in a grocery and tended...
...percent of the people I grew up with are dead or in jail, and I would have been the same way. Without basketball, I wouldn't have had an outlet." The challenge is to help more student athletes channel their talents into usable skills rather than into the dead end of broken dreams...
Last week Washington recorded its 120th murder of 1989; there had been 73 committed at the same point a year ago. At that bloody rate, last year's record 372 killings will be surpassed by the end of this summer...
...launch a sustained military action outside its immediate neighborhood. Today the territory that India most covets is purely psychological. Says a West European diplomat in New Delhi: "More than anything else, India wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be viewed as a world power. That is an end in itself...