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A ringmasterificator with hair of grandilomentitudinous proportions has lifted his dukes against a force of monumentatious sportumental influence. Translation: DON KING filed a $2.5 billion defamation suit against ESPN last week. "I seek justice," said King, disputing ESPN's SportsCentury profile of him, aired last May, which called the boxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don King's Next Fight, Round 1 | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

The detective in The Final Solution is almost certainly meant to be our old friend Sherlock Holmes, although Chabon never names him. Chabon's Holmes is long past his Baker Street prime: at 89, he has become a frail, eccentric, beekeeping retiree. Mystery comes looking for the aging detective in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pop Goes the Literature | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

It's instructive to watch a literary writer operate in a genre environment, where plot and pacing trump beautiful writing, where the thrill of what comes next is more important than the nuance of the now. When Chabon gets a little flowery, instead of marveling at his elegant prose, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pop Goes the Literature | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Homicides in U.S. workplaces have fallen nearly 40% in the past decade. Even so, Oklahoma passed a law forbidding employers to ban guns from company parking lots. State legislator Jerry Ellis says law-abiding hunters should be allowed to stow firearms in their cars at work. Employees with violent intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fired Up Over A Gun Law | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

A visibly gracious Thompson congratulated Holmes as confetti fell from the studio ceiling.

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Grad Loses In ESPN Finale | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

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