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...University of Kentucky is now preparing its formal responses to a list of stark charges made by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. They range from a falsified entrance exam to a recruiting payoff that, in what a fan from Indiana might call an act of God, burst in cash from a defective airfreight package. Conviction would probably result in probationary exclusion from tournaments and television. Then Kentucky would be within one felony of the NCAA's newfound "death penalty": a one- or two-year shutdown of the sort that has reduced the football program at Southern Methodist University to intramurals...
...tussle adds to U.S. fears that Europe's movement toward a unified market in 1992 will raise increasing barriers to outside competition. The beef war already shows signs of escalating. E.C. officials are preparing a list of U.S. food imports as counterretaliatory targets. Among them: dried fruit, canned corn and honey...
...much talent among the poor, we must help them no matter what," he says. "We lose so much when we lose the people from the inner cities." At the University of Miami medical school, where he is a fellow in hepatology, there is a three-month waiting list for the "homeless elective" for medical students...
...impressive as those numbers are, basketball is only the launching pad for Jordan's accelerating financial rocket ship. Thanks largely to his agents at ProServ, a Washington-based sports marketing firm, Jordan will earn an estimated $5 million off the court this year. His list of corporate endorsements keeps growing: Chevrolet, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Johnson Products (personal-care items produced by one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S.), Nike. And last fall Jordan became the first basketball player ever to appear on a box of Wheaties...
...written plays and even, two years ago, a nonfiction work on boxing. This frenetic production has hardly destroyed her reputation; she is a literary figure of considerable clout, she holds a tenured professorship at Princeton University, and every fall her name is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize. But there is something of the sideshow about her renown among the general reading public; she is widely recognized as the woman who turns out all those books, less often as the author of a single, unforgettable narrative. Thanks to her own energy, nothing she has written...