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When his airness, Michael Jordan, decided last summer to reflate his 38-year-old self for NBA career No. 3, he risked becoming a basketball sideshow, a one-man Harlem Globetrotter surrounded by a bunch of clowns called the Washington Wizards, a team whose only trick was to make itself disappear come play-off time. "He is not going to dominate night in and night out," warned his buddy, the noted hoop philosopher Charles Barkley. "I don't think they will make the play-offs." Neither Jordan nor the Wiz did anything to dispel that notion, dropping 10 of their...
...achievements are incomparable. He wrote what could be called the first modern pop hit ("Alexander's Ragtime Band"). He wrote the most popular song in history ("White Christmas") and the longest-lived pop anthem ("God Bless America"). A one-man synthesis of American assimilation, he helped define American pop with three other gents from all over the map: New York Jew Al Jolson, Omaha German-American Fred Astaire and Tacoma, Wash., Catholic Bing Crosby...
...they may even be getting used to the idea that Osama bin Laden may have slipped the noose - or at least giving up on the idea of Islamic terrorism as a one-man threat. If OBL is captured or killed, only 27 percent would feel "safer," while 65 percent would feel "as safe as currently feel." (A martyrdom-mindful 7 percent would feel "less safe.") And if the U.S. achieves "most of its goals" in Afghanistan but doesn?t get OBL, 50 percent say they would still consider the military action "a victory." (Of course, 46 percent wouldn...
DIED. NORMAN GRANZ, 83, one-man jazz-promoting machine who founded Verve Records and in 1944 created the touring group Jazz at the Philharmonic, which included such members as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...love the role,” he says. “Each game brings something different. I come in and I’ve got to be ready to guard a one-man, a two-man, a three-man. Sometimes even a four...