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...moved away from the team concept and into the world of individuals seeking to maximize their marketability. We really need not look beyond Shaquille O'Neal. Here is a larger-than-life figure that has moved beyond the basketball court into acting and rapping and without being able to shoot free-throws or win a championship or MVP. I mean, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was starring in "Airplane!", he had some success under his belt...
...look at the NBA today and I see Dennis Rodman, J.R. Rider, Larry Johnson, Shaq O'Neal and other talent for hire and I pine for the old days, as a 19-year-old. Watching those old highlights of the 1980's during the TNT special literally gave me chills while the current clips simply depressed...
...Neal pounced on the chance to fill this seat when 36-year incumbent Edward Boland retired in 1988. Eight years later, with a Capitol Hill reputation for working effectively behind the scenes, he sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. He voted for medical leave and the line-item veto but, to protect his district's medical-service industries, balked at the President's 1993 health-care plan...
...taxes, and has strong opinions about the country's "moral crisis." He is "unalterably pro-life" and says he'd help return America to a time when abortion, drugs and alcohol abuse were not major societal ills. But Steele, 37, will have a hard time defeating incumbent Richard Neal, who hammered his last opponent...
Burr couldn't steal the Fifth from Democrat Stephen Neal in 1992, but won it on Neal's 1994 retirement. How firm his hold now is--it was a Democratic district for 20 years before Burr arrived--may depend on local distaste for President Clinton's 1993 75-cents-a-pack cigarette-tax proposal. Burr's defense of the embattled tobacco industry is a winner here in R.J. Reynolds' backyard...