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...gets to the middle? "You're screwed," says Hubie Brown, the Hall of Fame coach and analyst. Why? "He has so many options," says 6-ft 9-in Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng, who has matched up against Bryant in the past. "He can go back to his left, go right, pull up, take the fade-away." He has lots of room to float - and no one floats further away from his defender, and still makes the shot, better than Kobe. Plus, when he's in the middle, Kobe's superior peripheral vision allows him to see the entire floor...
...Young people took this message to heart all across the country. Angry protesters filled the streets at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution’s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike” that shut down the university...
...Today, America is trapped again in a damaging military project abroad, yet few have taken to the streets. Harvard’s Class of 2008 enjoyed a tame final semester, without any takeovers of University Hall. This irritates some from my generation who would like to see today’s college students responding with a bit more “righteous indignation” to the war in Iraq. We denigrate today’s youth as too coddled and self-absorbed to care. Not fearing military service, thanks to an all-volunteer army, today’s students...
...impressions of the Class of 2008, gained during my admittedly brief visit this spring, are a bit different. What I have noticed is considerable seriousness of purpose, both in and out of class, and remarkably little self-absorption. Nobody tried to take over University Hall this spring, but quite a few of my students did give up long weekends without sleep or pay to campaign for their favorite candidates in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Instead of seeking change through self-indulgent and often self-defeating street tactics, these students sought a path to change in Iraq?...
...possible that this phobia of risk that is branded upon the Harvard student's soul is not a result of our Ivy-pedigree education, but our decision to take part in it in the first place. Students who are admitted to Harvard haven't made many mistakes. While Byerly Hall does a fantastic job of putting together diverse classes, perhaps this risk-minimizing ethos is the exception. After all, with the luxury of a seven-percent admit rate, why would Harvard's gatekeepers bother taking risks with the future...