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Someone else who has demonstrated perseverance is basketball player MICHAEL JORDAN. Since Jordan has lent his name to everything from cereal to underwear, why not a children's book? Salt in His Shoes (Simon & Schuster) happens to have been written by his mom Deloris Jordan and sister Roslyn M. Jordan. "Mama, how can I grow taller?" a young Michael asks his mother after losing a basketball game. His mother tells him that putting salt in his shoes will help. Though he doesn't notice any improved verticality, he keeps playing. It will come as no surprise that Michael realizes that...
...Radcliffe name] always lent the program a certain degree of glamour," said David M. Granger, editor-in-chief of Esquire Magazine and a 1982 program alumnus. "Columbia is a fantastic school, but Harvard still has the glow...
...D?j? Vu The final trio of acts were among the musical heavyweights of their generation. First came the improbable survivors of the '60s Crosby, Stills & Nash. The harmonies may occasionally strain but the commitment and history of the three performers lent an air of Big Chill idealism to the proceedings. "Marrakesh Express" and "Helplessly Hoping" (the latter slyly dedicated to "Shrub" by Crosby) were the soundtrack to the giddy optimism of the late...
Other alums also lent a hand. Conan C. O'Brien '85, last year's Class Day Speaker and two-time Lampoon president, wrote an unsigned piece for the last section of the book...
...point in the evening he lent a sympathetic hand basically solidifying the fact that he was a gentleman...