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...Reed College, Portland, Ore. At this year's "Renn Fayre," Reedies burned their theses, Jell-O wrestled, ate bugs off one another's skin and flailed to the rock band Paradise Citizens...
...think AOL-Time Warner is a big, scary company already know how big and scary it is." But there was a big rush on satellite dishes in Houston last week, and a heightened sensitivity to the power of the cable companies. Officials in many cities have been looking toward Portland, Ore., which drew upon its power to approve a change in ownership of the city's cable systems to win concessions from AT&T when it acquired the previous Portland cable operator in 1998. While the FCC has since taken Portland to court, and no one expects that an individual...
Courtney Love, the Jackie O. of grunge, who grew up outside Eugene, shoplifted a Kiss T shirt at 12 and landed in reform school. Tonya Harding, troublesome Olympic ice skater who hails from Milwaukie, a Portland suburb, got into a scuffle at age 15 with her half brother, 26, hitting him with a curling iron and a hockey stick. Meanwhile, Shorb has already appeared on Good Morning America and hired Harding's former agent...
...likelihood, we will have a Lakers-Knicks final. Although one might question if the Knicks are consistent enough to play with L.A. in a seven-game series, they have one advantage that most teams other than Portland do not possess, which is the fact that they can guard the Big Three on the Lakers. Sprewell can defend Kobe just as well as he did Air Canada and Larry Johnson can more than keep up with Glen Rice and will even be able to exploit his size advantage on offense. Even though the Big Fella, Patrick Ewing, is as immobile...
...Unlike Portland, New York can depend on a go-to-guy, actually, three of them. Allan Houston, Sprewell, and Johnson have all shown themselves to be clutch in the past, and New York can depend on at least one of them being on their game each night. New York also has one advantage the Lakers cannot boast - a real homecourt advantage. While the Staples Center can be one of the quietest arenas in the NBA, Madison Square Garden is THE place to play...