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DIED. CHICK HEARN, 85, colorful radio and television announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers and 1992 inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame, who during his 42-year career coined such phrases as "slam dunk" and "air ball"; in Los Angeles. One of the few off-court icons of the NBA, Hearn called the play-by-play in an uninterrupted streak of 3,338 games from November 1965 until Dec. 16, 2001, when he had open-heart surgery. "There's never going to be another Chick Hearn," said the Lakers' legendary guard, Magic Johnson. "Some people grow bigger than their...
...course, going it alone involves costs. "I'm sure that my choices have inspired ulcers in my family and in my fiance," says John Hearn, 31, a veteran of two failed dotcoms who started his own consulting firm last year in New York City. Aside from the dental plan, he envies little about corporate life: "My generation got a taste of how exciting work can be. It's difficult to settle for something less...
...real reward of the double album is Sweeney himself, portrayed by the redoubtable George Hearn. Twenty years after he played the role in New York, Hearn’s voice shows no strain and his performance remains remarkably powerful. Though an out-of-print videotape of Hearn’s performance in Hal Prince’s original staging is available, this is the first recording to feature him as Sweeney, and even were it not desirable for its comprehensiveness and its perfectly cast principals, Hearn’s Sweeney is a marvel worth possessing...
...Joseph Hearn...
...white students. Given the tide of opposition to affirmative action at mainstream institutions, the whites-only scholarships have sparked an outcry. But with African-American enrollment dropping, historically black colleges have no choice but to recruit people of all races. "Lincoln is schizophrenic at this point," says Rosemary Hearn, who has taught English at the school for 42 years. "There's always that real concern about how we're going to maintain our heritage...