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...late father couldn't see it--was somewhat diminished by the fact that even as he played his first game, the Champion sportswear company was turning out Jordan 45 jerseys. Sometimes with Jordan, you don't know where the reality ends and the commercial begins. Asked what playing minor-league baseball did for him, he said, "It helped me realize what was important to me. It was like going to my guru." The reference, of course, was to the Gatorade ad in which a guru advises him, "Life is a sport. Drink...
...Samuel Goldwyn once offered Freud $100,000 to write a "love story" for his movie studio. Sometimes Douglas gets her details wrong. Gertrude Stein's famous tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose"), for example, does not begin with "A," as the book quotes it. But these are minor flaws in an erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis, both of which had a sense "of having been a specially privileged and charged site of American experience.'' We shall not see their like again, and too bad for that...
...there are other ways for faculty to get involved and to affect the quality of student life. As onerous it may seem to agree to serving on yet another committee, the rewards can outweigh the minor time commitment required. Although professors' first reaction when asked to serve on a committee is often a tired sigh, when they do sit on relatively effective committees such as the EPC, they often say they are glad to have spent the time doing something productive for the College...
...most famous minor league player of all time did baseball a great service last week: he hung up his spikes. After a thoroughly unproductive rookie season at the age of 31, Michael Jordan mercifully ended his 18-month farce and returned the national pastime to legitimate ballplayers...
...signed by the Chicago White Sox (whose owner, not coincidentally, also happens to own the Chicago Bulls) to a minor league contract and sent to the Double A Birmingham Barons to work on his basic skills...