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...Mike Krzyzewski fancies himself a business guru. And why not? Coach K has built Duke into a hoops dynasty (they've won a ridiculous 78% of their games over 26 seasons) and is a highly sought speaker on the corporate lecture circuit. But now, as the coach of the confederacy of millionaires also known as the U.S. national team, he's the CEO of a daunting turnaround project to restore America's basketball and sporting pride. And despite his outward cool, he was scared stiff when he signed on. "Because it's not Duke now, I'm saying, 'Will they...
...Please give him this message, sir: Those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, in an interview with Mike Wallace, on George W. Bush's failure to answer an 18-page letter he sent in May criticizing U.S. foreign policy...
...very, very short, but he's comfortable in his own skin." MIKE WALLACE, after the interview, on Ahmadinejad's physicality...
...DIED. Mike Douglas, 81, ever polite, even-keeled--and hugely successful--early TV talk-show host, whose 90-min. Mike Douglas Show aired from 1961 to 1982; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. As a big-band singer, he made the pop charts with the soapy 1966 hit The Men in My Little Girl's Life. For two decades he was host to guests ranging from a string of sitting and former U.S. Presidents to a preschooler named Tiger Woods (whose golf skills prompted fellow guest Bob Hope to joke, "I don't know what kind of drugs they...
...desperately need a lift, and for Coach K, frightened or not, to lead the way. "Mike is one of those guys who, as a person and as a coach, transcends some definition of some level of the game, "says Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle." This is a new beginning, and we all expect great things...