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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoop Dreams and Sneaker Realities | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoop Dreams and Sneaker Realities | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MASSACHUSETTS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MASSACHUSETTS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NORTH CAROLINA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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