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...becoming rarer and rarer in American life. Braggadocio and trash talk are the rule these days. Once upon a time an athlete who hit a homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth would say, "Aw, I was just lucky to hit that curve." But Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath changed all that. With Ali's "I am the greatest" speeches and Joe Namath's confident predictions of victories, sports etiquette was altered forever. In the NBA finals, Shaq pounded his opponents in print as much as he pounded them on the court...
...least boxing is consistent. The men's version is fraught with sleaze, and--hey! so is the women's. LAILA ALI, 23, scored a majority decision over JACQUI FRAZIER-LYDE, 39, last Friday night in Verona, N.Y., in what was billed as the next chapter in the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier feud but was actually a fight between two women who are very bad at boxing. True, both fighters came in undefeated: Ali had crushed 48-year-old grandmother Marjorie Jones; Frazier-Lyde had whupped a 19-year-old who turned tail when she saw Frazier charging. The fighters exchanged...
...including wounded Dos Palmas security guard Eldrin Morales and R.J. Recio, 8, who left his father Luis behind. The gunships and troop carriers then moved in, picking off the snipers and pounding the two buildings. The surviving rebels appeared to relish the prospect of death. Remarking that the Prophet Muhammad's birthday was two weeks off, an Abu Sayyaf leader told TIME: "It's jihad time. And what better time? It will be a rare privilege to die on his birthday. Thanks to the Abu Sayyaf...
...week. "They asked me. I didn't ask for it. Maybe because I'm an example of vitality?" Indeed, Marceau, 78, still performs his sad, white-faced act 200 times a year. He's less clear on what his U.N. duties will be. "I don't know. What did Muhammad Ali do for peace when he was supposed to be a spokesman for peace?" Good point. One thing Marceau is sure of is that the elderly will not go without a voice just because a man famed for his silence is their spokesman. "I speak. I said to people...
...fact that of the three great religious groups--the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims--only the Muslims welcomed followers of the other religions back to Jerusalem to coexist and to worship the one true God common to all three at their holy places. The followers of Muhammad were the only ones who respected in practice the other religions in the Holy Land. Today Pope John Paul II carries on this great Islamic tradition by promoting Jerusalem's becoming an open city. PATRICK R. HUGHES Seal Beach, Calif...