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Although he has been listed as 7 ft. ever since his days at the University of Houston, Olajuwon is really no taller than 6 ft. 10 in. -- an inch below the 16-year-old Shaq; 2 in. below the New York Knicks' Patrick Ewing, whom he beat in last year's N.B.A. Finals; and 3 in. below the San Antonio Spurs' David Robinson, the 1994-95 N.B.A. mvp, whom he beat like a drum in this year's Western Conference finals...
...Reported by Patrick E. Cole and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Deborah Mitchell/Orlando
...other side, Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, among others, will try to limit rate increases and preserve a major role for the Justice Department in managing local markets. Nothing short of the future of the telecommunications industry is at stake. At the moment, the betting is that Pressler's bill will succeed, at least in some form. "Like Ronald Reagan, he benefits from being underestimated," says Kenneth Duberstein, a lobbyist and former White House aide. "In the end, Larry Pressler, as usual, will produce...
Dole says he's not interested in government censorship, which in any event hasn't worked very well in the past. In the best tradition of Patrick Henry, Americans generally don't have much patience with government interference in First Amendment rights of expression, even when they may not much like what's being expressed. In the most highly publicized attempt in recent years to set the law on pop music, three members of 2 Live Crew were arrested in Florida in 1990 after a live performance. It took a local jury just two hours to acquit them on obscenity...
...REPORTED BY JAMES CARNEY AND MICHAEL DUFFY/WASHINGTON, PATRICK E. COLE AND MARGOT HORNBLOWER/LOS ANGELES AND JOHN MOODY/NEW YORK