Word: houston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Allan Houston flipped a lunging, one-handed runner that carried the fate of two teams and two seasons in its precarious arc. As the shot caromed high off the front of the rim, 15,000 pairs of eyes in Miami Arena watched it hang like an omen above the basket...
...Boston Ballet is hosting the New England premier of Dracula, a new full-length ballet by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Ben Stevenson and has launched one of the most aggressive ad campaigns the ballet has seen in recent memory. And the ads, buttons and posters live up to their promise--Dracula is one of the biggest spectacles to hit the Wang in years...
...shed the 60 lbs. she'd gained during her pregnancy nine years ago. She went through over-the-counter weight-loss pills, liquid diets, starvation diets--always with the same result. "I would try it for about a week," says Smith, 38, a customer-service manager at a Houston bank. "I'd lose maybe 5 to 10 lbs., then get discouraged and end up dropping...
...party, inevitably, took note. It repeatedly refused to approve Falun Gong conventions, and a year ago, Li left China at the apparent urging of authorities. He was hardly friendless upon arrival in the U.S.: in 1996 Houston's mayor proclaimed a Li Hongzhi Day--and there are Falun Gong chapters in eight countries and 21 American states. Li's finances seem robust, although it's unclear how much control he has over his organization...
...school after his classmates spotted him loading a .40-cal. handgun. He had a hit list of 30 names with "they deserved to die" scrawled at the bottom. The epidemic has put school administrators in a tough position. "Now everyone has to be serious about everything," says Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of Administrators in Arlington, Va., "because they're afraid if they aren't, they might be jeopardizing children." At the same time, the American Civil Liberties Union has been deluged with complaints from parents whose children were suspended for wearing black or making provocative statements...