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...their part, most NBA players insist that they either ignore the abuse or use it as motivation. "The hostile arenas make the game fun," says New York Knicks guard Allan Houston. "They make you want to hit a big shot so you can silence them." Houston, one of the league's gentlemen, admits, "As a player, it's hard not to go after some people, but you have to be a bigger person than that. If you hold back, it makes them look bad. It puts the stain on them...
...some years Proulx (rhymes with true), 69, has been a virtuoso chronicler of Wyoming's beleaguered ranchlands and the sinewy characters who insist on inhabiting them, generally in the face of good evidence that it would be a wise idea to move on. She covered this territory for the first time in Close Range, a magnificent 1999 collection of short stories. Now comes Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (Scribner; 219 pages), another terse, twisty and entertaining assemblage...
...women's groups as the greatest breakthrough since the Pill. But after the deaths of three women who had taken the drug to terminate unwanted pregnancies, the FDA issued a black-box warning about the risk of death from bacterial infections and other complications. The pill's supporters insist that when properly used, RU 486 is no riskier than a surgical abortion and considerably safer than carrying a pregnancy to term...
Because of the holes in UKA, House residents are often reticent to shut the door on someone who may be a resident of another House. With unrestricted access, students could more confidently insist that questionable people brandish their IDs, or remain outside. Banerji rightly notes, “You trust everyone with a Harvard College...
...Long on blame and short on restraint, Darfur's combatants show little desire to work things out. Despite the rebels' concerted wave of attacks in recent weeks on Tawila and other towns across Darfur - for which they have been solely blamed by UN special envoy Jan Pronk - the rebels insist it is the government that continues to violate the cease-fire...