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...Jackson makes clear in the book, the interpersonal triangle that connected him, Bryant and center Shaquille O'Neal fell apart. Bryant was consumed with being Los Angeles' alpha Laker and saw any Shaq gain as his loss. It was office politics at a whole other level. "These two guys had to be on the same wavelength," Jackson tells TIME. "I don't think there's anything particularly that kept Kobe from throwing the ball into Shaq. But the opportunity for them to play together--give, go screen, roll--was never really fleshed out. So I thought it kept us from...
...Neal Stephenson...
...might assume that Kerouac was as wild as Dean Moriarty, the human jackhammer at the book's center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear...
...Powers-Neal, Notre Dame’s starting fullback, is Stovall’s online partner in crime. A member of both the Legion and Muck Fichigan, he also claims allegiance to “Random Hook-ups Anonymous,” and takes a more philosophical angle to life. When asked to supply something about him, the senior says, “If I tell you, then we won’t have anything to talk about...
...while he’ll actually face off against Powers-Neal and Stovall in South Bend this week, he is their online brother, and will exchange pleasantries with them at some point on Saturday...