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They tried to kill Cinderella in Indiana this year. For 86 years, the Hoosier State's high school basketball tournament was winner-take-all, no matter how big the team or how small. Not now: Some geniuses decided that it would be more sporting to break the tourney into divisions, based on school size. David vs. David, Goliath vs. Goliath. No more Bobby Plump, whose buzzer-beater in 1954 gave tiny Milan High (enrollment 161) the state title and a hallowed place in local legend...
...collapse of the Soviet Union "was a remarkable opportunity in history but one fraught with enormous peril," the life-long hoosier told his audience...
...comedy with mass-market aspirations, In & Out feels it has to be cautious. We do discover Howard's sexual preference but not whether he ever exercised it with anyone, or even if he knows what it is. Kline is denied a nice, fat double-life monologue; he's no Hoosier Hamlet here. It turns out that the movie isn't about being gay. It's about being tolerant of sweet-souled men--guys who love the Lake Poets, show tunes and all things Barbra...
Billups, a second-team All-American, scored 20 points in the first half as Colorado built a 46-31 lead. The Buffaloes (22-9), making their first NCAA appearance in 28 years, went on to beat Indiana (22-11) by 18 points, matching the Hoosier's worst NCAA tournament defeat in 71 games...
...strong advocate of the study and treatment of Gulf War syndrome and consistently supports higher Pentagon budgets--Citadel alumni named Buyer their 1995 Man of the Year. Outside his military focus, he is a conservative who supports most of the Contract with America, a plus in this Hoosier Heartland...