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...Magic Johnson had his talk show. MICHAEL JORDAN had the Wizards. After 3 1/2 seasons at the helm of Washington's aggressively mediocre NBA team (and two seasons as the team's oldest and best player), Jordan got his walking papers last week in a rage-filled, 18min. meeting with Wizards' owner Abe Pollin. Jordan argued that as the greatest player in the history of the game--and as the man whose return to the court lined Pollin's pockets with $30 million of unanticipated revenue--he deserved more time to turn things around. Pollin countered that Jordan...
...left. She drove across town like Sandra Bullock in Speed. Arriving at the Brownie meeting, Mom sat down and basked for a few moments in a glow of satisfaction. It was then that she noticed the Brownie leader looking at her. "It's lovely to see you, Mrs. Johnson," the woman said. "But maybe next time you could bring your daughter as well?" "I forgot the kid," recalls the mom. "Can you believe it, I forgot...
...usual law-enforcement practice of not separating man and gun--as well as a 22-year-old aviation-safety regulation that requires all weapons to be unloaded when put into the baggage compartment. Some baggage handlers are reportedly refusing to touch the gun boxes. Says TSA spokesman Robert Johnson: "It is safer to minimize handling the gun." If changes prove necessary, he adds, the TSA will make them. --By Sally B. Donnelly
DIED. EARL KING, 69, flamboyant New Orleans rhythm-and-blues man; of complications from diabetes; in New Orleans. Born Earl Johnson, the fiery guitarist with the elaborately upraised coif got his stage name when a typesetter for Specialty Records accidentally garbled his moniker: King Earl. King's hundreds of songs, which included Mardi Gras staple Big Chief and R.-and-B. hits Trick Bag and Come On (Let the Good Times Roll), were recorded by Jimi Hendrix and Robert Palmer...
Emerging after her session, Johnson said her time with the palm reader felt more like a “discussion” than an “occult experience.” She held out her right hand and for about 10 minutes they talked about her personality traits, flexibility, eccentricity and interpersonal skills...