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Another star athlete charged with sexual malice? Such an item is usually confined to that burgeoning beat, the sports-page police blotter. Kobe Bryant makes it front-page news--not simply because he and Shaquille O'Neal are the Guts and Godzilla of the star-studded Lakers, not because he scored 30 points a game last season or because he went straight from high school legend to NBA phenom. Not even because he recently inked a $45 million endorsement deal with Nike. But because he is one of the NBA's prime icons of clean and keen...
...families: Bryant's and his accuser's and those of the kids who have seen the star as Mr. Nice Guy. A caller to the New York City sports radio station WFAN sounded heartbroken when he said he now had to take away his son's favorite item of sports apparel: his Kobe Bryant No. 8 jersey...
...State of Affairs Your notebook item about president Bush's visit to Africa and his failure to meet with former South African President Nelson Mandela [July 7] noted that Mandela called the U.S. "a threat to world peace." That statement has depressed me more than all the other horrible things that have recently occurred. Mandela feels that he represents justice and truth and thus can say and perhaps do anything he wants. But the threat to world peace lies in the self-righteous mentality of certain people who try to sum up all of the problems in the world...
...Declaration of Independence, but my thoughts keep wandering back to that recipe. Jefferson bothered to find the recipe from a French acquaintance, to write it down, to keep it in good condition and to give it to his cook back in Virginia. While it may seem a small item, it demonstrates that even in the midst of the history-changing events he was engaged in, Jefferson still maintained his attention to detail, his level of attachment to France and his commitment to preserving what, to him, was the essence of experiencing another country. I can understand that this great...
...Accompanying the Rehnquist story was an item about the 2002 school-voucher decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. We said the court's ruling held that "a government program does not obstruct freedom of religion if aid goes directly to the student or parent, who then chooses a school." The issue involved was whether the voucher program violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the guarantee that the government will not establish a religion but will maintain the separation of church and state...