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...have had the temerity to bench Wilt Chamberlain in the final moments of a championship game. But for the earthy, profane, hyper-animated Butch Van Breda Kolff, above, who held 13 head-coaching jobs in a 30-year career, the 1969 decision was no big deal--even though his Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics and V.B.K., as he was known, was fired. An ex--New York Knick, he coached teams including the Detroit Pistons, the Phoenix Suns and Bill Bradley's Princeton squad--and treasured teamwork and unselfishness above all. "Life isn't much different than [basketball...
...your article about "a new model for gifted education" [Aug. 27]: I am a student of the Early Entrance Program (EEP) at California State University, Los Angeles, which takes grade skipping to its extreme by allowing young students early entrance to college. Students here begin taking full-time college classes at age 14, though our youngest student was 9. Every student is radically accelerated, usually skipping all of high school. The program provides academic support as well as a social framework that connects us with like-minded students. While other early-college-entrance programs exist, none have the social support...
...Obviously something darker was going on amidst all those flaxen-haired mellow good times. The only comment from Wilson, who's said to be in good condition at Cedar's Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, has been to issue this statement: "I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time." Nevertheless speculation about his drug use, depression over his May break-up from Hudson and a recent fight with a friend have peppered the coverage of Wilson's hospitalization. A People magazine cover story out Friday quotes a friend...
...fashioned Nicaraguan nationalism may also have helped keep the gang culture at bay, since the major transnational gangs that terrorize Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras - the Mara Salvatrucha and the M-18 - are essentially foreign, originating in Los Angeles. Mauricio Bustamante, 19, spent three years living in Guatemala spying on M-18 for the Salvatrucha before returning to Nicaragua and getting involved in his old local gang, the Cumbas. He says that Nicaraguan gangs have rejected the culture of the Salvatrucha and M-18 in keeping with the Nicaraguan spirit of resistance to foreign intervention...
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