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...coaches, sports agents, shoe manufacturers, sportswriters and TV producers. It involves conning kids--mostly poor black kids--into believing that they can grow up to play professional basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York...
...editor of a newsletter for the Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for people with high IQs, was fired today for publishing articles that called for killing homeless, elderly and mentally ill Americans. Nikki Frey, the editor of "Lament," had maintained that she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive," but the local group's board didn't buy it. No wonder: The newsletter's November issue, publicized more widely in the Los Angeles Times this week, urged that "mentally defective" people be "humanely dispatched" and mourned that Adolf Hitler spoiled a good debate over...
...reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime was ruining public opinion regarding the concept of a master race, while a second says many of the homeless "should be humanely done away with, like abandoned kittens." The newsletter's editor, Nikki Frey, cited free-speech rights and said she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive...
...Jane Frey (Senior Associate Director); Billy Powers (Associate Director); Victoria Nightingale (Designer...
...Jane Frey (Senior Associate Director); Billy Powers (Associate Director); Victoria Nightingale (Designer...