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...This also is the week networks decide the fate of numerous shows "on the bubble," or facing possible cancellation. Some of the bubble shows include: "Once and Again" (rumored to be staying at ABC), "Gideon's Crossing" (rumored to be history at ABC), "Three Sisters" (we can only hope NBC kills it, but don't bet on it) and the WB's "Roswell" (possibly staying, possibly dying, possibly picking up and moving to UPN along with "Buffy...
...That farcical touch actually contributed to the victims' fate. Banerjee describes an ill-prepared administration that collapsed like a frail tree. Nearly everyone comes off as indictable: the politicians who demanded aerial surveys or motorcades for photo ops; the volunteers who scrambled for grants from aid agencies but did nothing about rehabilitation; the journalists looking for color. Relief material piled up but was not distributed. (Some ended up in Gujarat after its devastating earthquake 15 months later.) The greatest crime of all: officials responsible for relief, after failing in their jobs, were allegedly found swindling the state treasury. According...
...thoughts of a Knick fan like myself inevitably drift back to the game, and how fate has done it to us once again...
Every year, fate finds a new way for the Knicks to lose. This year, the combined pressure of Camby’s personal situation and the backlash surrounding recent anti-Semitic comments by point guard Charlie Ward may have proven too much for the Knicks to overcome. That and the offense of ex-Knick Chris Childs, who never played this well in the Garden when he wore the home uniform...
...fate has it in for us. But even if fate were to relent, what would it matter? I’ve read about the championship teams of the early 1970s, the Knicks of Willis Reed, Walt Frazier and Dave DeBusschere. My mom has told me about how all of New York fell in love with them...