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Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat-piper that ever took up the cloak...
...busybody and the crybaby are getting to be the most conspicuous children on the American playground...
...earth were Virginia's two premier Democrats squaring off like rival schoolyard bullies? For one thing, Senator Charles Robb and Governor Douglas Wilder had resumed their battle for primacy in the political playground. But in creating what Robb called a "demolition derby," they also damaged their own futures and hurt their party on the eve of state legislative elections. And as leaders with reputations beyond Virginia, they embarrassed their already demoralized national party...
Countless odes have been sung to Jordan's uncanny, unearthly, preternatural ability to defy gravity. Rightly so, for airborne wizardry is what makes Jordan the apotheosis of the playground player, the supreme performer who unites hard-court fundamentals with the improvisational creativity of the blacktop. Pardon the pretentiousness, but Jordan's artistry fuses the classic and the romantic...
...building project made infamous by Alex Kotlowitz's book There Are No Children Here -- Meeka Boyd, 11, described the shooting of a young man on a basketball court that she saw last year. Her friend Netisha Stroger, also 11, saw a girl shot in the leg on the playground. "When it's real hot out, it's real bad," says Netisha. "That's when people start shooting, and you can't go outside. It's scary...