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...DIED. GEORGE MIKAN, 80, pro basketball's first powerful "big man," whose aggressive play and graceful, ambidextrous hook shots elevated the sport's profile during the 1940s and '50s and led the Minneapolis Lakers to five championships in the team's first six years; in Scottsdale, Arizona. At a time when towering players were thought to be insufficiently nimble, the bespectacled, 2.08 m DePaul graduate single-handedly dominated the newly formed National Basketball Association, drawing crowds, forcing the league to establish new rules (the original 1.83 m key was expanded to thwart his offensive dominance), and once prompting New York...
...Chang, a 44-year-old photographer who occasionally works for TIME, tracked several agencies that hook up Taiwan men with Vietnamese women desperate to secure a better life, even if it means leaving their native land forever. Brokered marriages across borders are not unusual in Asia. The wives of many Japanese farmers, for example, are mail-order brides from the Philippines. But the Taiwan-Vietnam connection has proved particularly robust, yielding some 80,000 such couplings over the past decade. Chang followed the men to Ho Chi Minh City, where they're shown an array of young women preselected...
DIED. GEORGE MIKAN, 80, pro basketball's first powerful big man, whose graceful, ambidextrous hook shots elevated the sport's profile during the 1940s and '50s and led the Minneapolis Lakers to five titles in the team's first six years; of kidney failure; in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 6-ft. 10-in. DePaul graduate so dominated the newly formed NBA that he forced the league to change its rules, expanding the 6-ft. "key" to thwart his offensive dominance, and once prompted Madison Square Garden officials to promote a 1949 game as "Geo. Mikan vs. Knicks...
...YOUR PHONE RINGING OFF THE HOOK NOW WITH ENDORSEMENT OFFERS...
...myths of Watergate look a bit different now that we have a name and a biography to attach to Deep Throat. The real man had scores to settle as a thwarted bureaucrat as well as principles to defend. He is at once a narrative hook for a complicated story of political intrigue and a marketable commodity in this age of celebrity. Yet to look at his record is to realize a deeper truth about Watergate: it was less about one character than about the process working the way it should. And as everyone has long accepted, it wasn...