Word: generalize
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...York, like the rest of basketball fans, forgave and forgot the lockout. In return, throughout the play-offs their team has exploited the general disorganization in the league. It's the Knicks' Sprewell-led bench (and Spree, who will never be nominated for Mr. Congeniality, has made it clear that he should start) that fooled the Heat and Hawks with their transition game and spastic, slashing offense...
They've even thrived on their own disunity, which has been building steadily. When it looked as if the team were going to miss play-offs, Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts demoted longtime general manager Ernie Grunfeld, who had brought in Sprewell as well as the league's largest payroll. This was partly to appease Van Gundy, who was feuding with Grunfeld. Then Checketts met with ex-Bull coach Phil Jackson about taking Van Gundy's job next year. At last week's clinching game against Atlanta, fans chanted Van Gundy's name in a defiant gesture of support...
There are worse consequences in the Balkans. Peacekeeping by means of smart bombs that now and then drop down hospital chimneys breeds contradictions. The physician's--and presumably the peacekeeper's--principle, "First, do no harm," loses to the general's "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." Everyone expects mistakes and stupidities in war; but when you make war by remote control, a superpower ex machina raining destruction without concomitant risk to self, then your invulnerability (the arrogance of powers unwilling to pay war's reciprocal price in blood) tends to subvert the moral basis...
Hovering behind its presentation is the vaguely boosterish feeling that Degas felt some unusual affinity to New Orleans and to Louisiana in general. "Louisiana must be respected by all her children," he wrote to his friend Henri Rouart in Paris, "and I am almost one of them." Alas, it's Degas being ironic. The sentences before make this clear: speaking of New Orleans women, he wrote that "their heads are as weak as mine, which a deux would prove a strange guarantee for a new home...
SALUTE-ATORIAN General Norman Schwarzkopf (2), University of Richmond: "America is you, beginning today...