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...underdog for the first time, a newcomer to the event, with the odds (personally) against him. For perhaps the first time in memory, we will not greet another no-look pass with a shrug of familiarity: Magic is an amateur again. Why should he, suddenly mortal, risk his health to play in the Olympics? Why should we race off to watch him play in Barcelona? Because the root of the word amateur -- still the heart of the Games, even in these professional times -- is the first Latin verb that every student learns: amo, or "I love...
...Games, she became the greatest -- and perhaps best known -- woman athlete in the world. Her world- record point total in the seven-event heptathlon (7,291) is regarded as virtually unmatchable. But one warm night in Tokyo last August, the superhuman Jackie Joyner-Kersee seemed momentarily mortal. She pulled a hamstring muscle in the 200-m race and left the world championships on a stretcher. "I thought my career was over," she says. It was just a temporary abdication though...
...therefore become a one-way ticket to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. A third of America's homeless are afflicted, as are about 3% of prison inmates and nearly 6% of those in maximum-security facilities (compared with 1% of the general population). The disease takes a mortal toll as well. About 1 in 4 schizophrenics attempts suicide; 1 in 10 succeeds...
RELENTLESS TERRORISM AND ECONOMIC DISINTEgration dealt a mortal blow to Peru's fragile democracy. With military support, President Alberto Fujimori closed down Congress and the judiciary, suspended the constitution and said he would rule by decree. Troops and tanks surrounded the Palace of Justice and the parliament building; journalists and opposition politicians were placed under arrest...
...readers who want just a little spice added to the Oswald-did-it scenario, there is Bonar Menninger's Mortal Error (St. Martin's Press; 361 pages; $23.95). According to Howard Donahue, a Baltimore ballistics expert, Kennedy was killed by a Secret Service agent in the presidential motorcade who accidentally discharged his AR-15 rifle. But Donahue says that Kennedy probably would have died anyway from the neck wound inflicted by Oswald. Among those unconvinced by this scenario is Menninger's publisher, who added a 17- page disclaimer to the book...