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...more than a dozen years ago, basketball didn't amount to nearly so much beyond the community gym. The pros were dismal, near bankruptcy. March Madness had not been invented by the impresarios. David Morton of the Amateur Athletic Union thinks the 1979 game between Indiana State and Michigan State, featuring Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, "lit the flame under college basketball" that carried a new excitement through the pros and down into the high schools...
...University now appears to be serious about conducting a competent investigation. Hiring two outside legal pros, A. Hugh Scott and James A. Ring, may give the investigation some independence that Steiner's lacked...
...however, Homicide doesn't stand out in bold enough relief from TV's background clutter. The characters are too pat, their conflicts too predictable. The premiere episode revolves around a naive newcomer to the squad (Kyle Secor) who faces, yes, resentment from the old pros, because he came from a wimpy job on the mayor's security detail. By Episode 2 (the following Wednesday), the show already seems to be marking time with goofy character diversions. One detective jabbers obsessively about finding the real killer of President Lincoln; another gets crime-solving help from a ghost; a third, a middle...
...Bush, and it is no accident that the new chief of staff lacks the hardballer's callouses of his predecessors. Rather than letting a lone chief of staff bring a narrow set of final decisions to him, as Bush did, Clinton will spend much of his time debating the pros and cons of issues with his deputies. "I don't see the job as a gatekeeper or as an enforcer. I really do see it as a supporting role," says McLarty. He intends to be an honest broker who will carry out orders, keep a low profile and make sure...
...female and can't dribble, so I knew early on that the pros were out. However, I kept watching basketball and wishing I was on the screen instead of in front of it. And I kept getting amazed by those I was watching...