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When John Thompson III, coach of the Georgetown University men's basketball team, took over the moribund program there three years ago, a persistent question hovered over him, the way Patrick Ewing once loomed over point guards when Thompson's father, Hall of Famer John Thompson Jr., coached the Hoyas during their 1980s glory years. Could he really import the Princeton Offense, the precise, pass-happy basketball style that Thompson absorbed as both player and coach at the Ivy League school, to a team like Georgetown, which competes in the high-powered Big East conference? Consider the Hoyas' most notable...
...calls it, the "quote-unquote white-guy offense" at Georgetown, whose aggressive, all-black teams under John Jr. discomforted many white fans. Papa John Jr., a 6-ft. 10-in. intimidator, in turn scared his players. These days, he attends practices and isn't shy about sharing. "A father has a license to meddle any time he wants," John Jr. says in his booming voice, adding a broad smile. The son embraces the presence of "Pops" but says, "Like most kids, I'm pretty good at ignoring my parents when I want...
...first time, researchers have identified twins that are identical on their mother's side, but share only half of their father's DNA. The twins, now toddlers, have been described as "semi-identical" - caught somewhere between identical twins (the result of the cleaving of an egg fertilized by one sperm) and fraternal twins (the result of two eggs meeting two sperm). Lead investigator Dr. Vivienne Souter says that while the term semi-identical provides some idea of how the twinning occurred, it is "an oversimplification...
...father's unchallenged power was certainly evident across Egypt on referendum day. After casting a "yes" vote at the Fouad Galal school on the east bank of the Nile River in Cairo, Diab Abolibda, a 59-year-old engineer, described how in the presidential election two years ago he favored upstart candidate Ayman Nour over Mubarak. Asked how he felt now that runner-up Nour was serving a five-year prison term for election fraud, a verdict and sentence criticized by many democracy advocates as political punishment for brashly challenging the president's authority, Abolibda let out a hearty laugh...
...also a truly rotten human being. He enjoyed insulting refugees, whom he claimed were "lazy" and "naughty" and whom he would taunt by slowing down as though to offer a ride, only to refuse when they asked. Once, when a family asked us to take their shaking, malarial father to hospital, I agreed, only to be overruled by Bishaq who insisted the decision was his alone. Another day, I caught Bishaq poking and laughing at a mentally disturbed...