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...Angeles school dropped more jaws than his first dunk ever could. When Meriwether steps onto the court for Crenshaw's first regular-season game this week, he will become the first white basketball player in the school's 30-year history. In a preview of the anticipated pandemonium, Meriwether's introduction at a recent preseason scrimmage prompted more than 1,000 students to stomp and chant his politically incorrect nickname. "I don't care what color the guys are, I just want to play," says the dazed Meriwether, "and there's no better school to play...
...Pandemonium reigns when the outlaw--800 lbs. of overfed, visibly upset black bear--emerges at a dead run from the basement crawl space. One cop fires orange paint, others rubber bullets. Searles shoots self-propelled flash-bang rockets. It may not seem so, but the "eviction" was meant kindly. California law permits the killing of bears caught in private homes. Folks in Mammoth Lakes, however, prefer a "bear spanking." "The meaner I can be," says Searles, who developed this kinder if not gentler approach, "the longer he'll live...
There is this consistent emblem in Ackroyd's More and Milton and Blake: London is the pivot into eternity. More's city, piously Catholic, fades into Camelot-like legend, shunned yet desired by Milton, who cannot regain it, all his monumental words raising only a pandemonium finally becalmed by Blake, who walks its shadows to find the city become Jerusalem. All three men were Londoners--as is Ackroyd. "It's always been ugly, a vandalized city," the novelist and biographer said recently. "But I hope it stays that way because that's its nature." His next book, he says, will...
Washington will need a great deal of both this time. Amid the pandemonium in Nairobi, rescuers may have inadvertently destroyed the vital bits and shreds from which the experts reconstruct the bombs and their delivery vehicles that serve as a kind of fingerprint of the terrorists. The manhunt begins on hands and knees at the decimated sites as investigators search for telltale scraps and pass them along to high-tech analysts in Washington. Intelligence agents are already sweeping through phone intercepts and combing computer databases that list some 200,000 terrorist suspects and more than 3,000 groups...
Joseph H. Osnoss '00, who is working in Parisfor the summer, has had the chance to observe theWorld Cup pandemonium up close. "Being in France,you're kind of swallowed up by the partyatmosphere," Osnoss said...