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Kenyon Martin had 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Bearcats and Pete Mickeal added 15 points and 10 rebounds and also did a fine defensive job on Rhode Island's star sophomore Lamar Odom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UConn Whups Richmond; Cincy Blasts Rhode Island | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

That effort was local. But a year later, trustees of SHOPA's charitable foundation began discussing a national school-supply program. One trustee suggested tapping into World Vision's Brother to Brother plan, which operates throughout the U.S. Some time later, World Vision's Robert Odom overheard Chicago school principal Tyson fretting that her students had no pencils for a citywide test. Odom called BTB in Tempe, Ariz., and urged them to start a school-supply program. "We've been talking to SHOPA for a year about this," he was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Teachers' Mart | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Most stores serve schools where at least 70% of the student body is impoverished. Teachers must carry an access card and a shopping list endorsed by their principal. Odom recalls teachers "literally crying," knowing their kids "would have a notebook for each subject." At the ribbon cutting in Los Angeles, Monique Allen, 10, of the 68th Street school, says she long suspected one of her teachers had deep pockets because the school "didn't have the kind of paper she put in my math folder." Now it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Teachers' Mart | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Williams is only one of many, many characters Berendt has on file. There's also Luther Driggers, an eccentric chemist who carries on his person a vial of poison powerful enough to kill every man, woman and child in Savannah; Joe Odom, a ne'er-do-well lawyer who lives in other people's houses and steals electricity from next door when the power company cuts him off; and, of course, the irrepressible Lady Chablis...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midnight' in the Garden of Good and Eastwood | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...There's been five or six years of deterioration, virtually no training, massive draft resistance," says retired U.S. Army Lieut. General William Odom, a former director of the National Security Agency. "They have physically unhardened soldiers commanded by officers who have had to sell off most of their equipment just to keep the troops fed." A senior Pentagon official who visited Russia recently saw "missile units foraging in the countryside for food like it was the 1890s, not the 1990s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It All Went So Very Wrong | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

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