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BEST STRATEGIST Railing against college basketball's three-point rule even as he mastered the strategy required for the 19-ft. 9-in. shot, Indiana Coach Bobby Knight led his third team to the national title in twelve years...
...polls, Babbitt could in the end be helped by Hart's claim to have re-entered the race because the other candidates were avoiding substantive issues. Babbitt, with his rumble-voice lectures about the need to raise taxes and restrain entitlements, has long staked his claim as the brave knight of substance. Relentlessly propounding specific proposals and coherent themes, Babbitt offers as many new and bold ideas as Hart does, but without the personal baggage...
...levels to match their milieus and enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s. Wall Street Director Oliver Stone and Co- Author Stanley Weiser (Project X) get their manic mileage from the gaudy argot of today's power brokers, principally one Gordon Gekko, a black knight who proclaims that "greed is good, greed is right, greed works, greed will save the U.S.A." Listen to the art of the boss raider as he works the phones to spear a couple mil in two minutes flat: "Wait for it to head south, then we'll raise the sperm...
Probably the most celebrated of all current channelers is J.Z. Knight, a handsome ex-housewife in Yelm, Wash., who has performed for thousands at a price of $150 each per session. She speaks for Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior who reports that he once lived on Atlantis. He has even dictated a book, I Am Ramtha, published in Portland, Ore., by Beyond Words Publishing and illustrated with photographs of Knight going into a trance on The Merv Griffin Show. Sample words of Ramthan wisdom: "Who be I? I am a notorious entity. I have that which is called...
...sayings of Ramtha have brought Knight substantial rewards, including a luxurious mansion complete with spa, swimming pool and Arabian horses. A spokesman deprecates talk of her wealth, however, by noting that she pays a staff of 14 and that the tax collectors are insatiable...