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...Houston center Akeem (as Hakeem was known then) Olajuwon was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 1983 Final Four after averaging 20.5 points and 20.0 rebounds for the two games. But it was North Carolina State and coach Jim Valvano who danced on the floor after winning the national title...
...brothers. Hugh isn't the only family member to disgrace a President (not even the only one in the Clinton family). Donald Nixon had shady business dealings. Billy Carter lobbied for Libya and peddled Billy Beer. The hard-drinking Sam Houston Johnson was practically kept under White House arrest by L.B.J. Roger Clinton, a mediocre musician and sometime actor (playing "Mayor Bubba" in Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings), lived up to his bad-brother billing recently by abusing a nightclub bouncer and getting arrested for drunk driving--all after receiving a presidential pardon himself. He also submitted his own list...
...loss to Union put a damper on what began as a solid weekend. The Crimson started off its stint in the Capital District strongly with a 1-0 blanking of Rensselaer Friday night at Houston Field House...
...exception should be the Indian state of Maharashtra, which has electricity galore, thanks to a major power complex set up by Dabhol Power Co., a consortium of foreign companies led by Enron Corp. of Houston, Texas. But before Maharashtrans fire up their irrigation pumps or coiled-wire tea kettles, there's one small snag: the electricity is so expensive no one can afford it. "More than 600 small manufacturers have already closed down because of high electricity bills," says Ashwin Treasurer, owner of an electronic component factory. "What sort of development is this...
...disappear for a while, cede the stage to the new guy, give us some time to forget why we weren't so sorry to see him go. Jimmy Carter returned to Plains, Ga., to nurse his wounds and work on his house; George Herbert Walker Bush disappeared to Houston, content to load his dishwasher and walk his dogs. But from the hour Bill Clinton's successor was sworn in, the youngest former President in modern history made it clear that he didn't intend to fade from view for even a minute. "I'm still here," he declared...