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...rumor mill began humming after Michael Jordan showed up for three straight practice sessions with his old team the Chicago Bulls. "I have decided to end my baseball career," Jordan said. All sorts of speculation were rife, and late Saturday word spread that Jordan would rejoin the Bulls for their March 24 game against the Orlando Magic and Shaquille O'Neal, the N.B.A.'s current megastar...
...liberals today, both Black and white, fear that dismantling affirmative action will mean leaving Blacks to fend for themselves in a society still rife with anti-Black prejudice and Black alienation. If racial preferences have to go, something else must be put in place to prove that America is not turning its back on the reality of racial inequality. "Discrimination does not justify preferential treatment," writes Steele, "but I want to know that the person who stands with me against preferences understands the problem that inspired them...
Looking for a way to kill someone? Why stab your better half in the throat when there's USAir? Such playful suggestions are rife throughout the play. Shear Madness constantly reminds us of the funny bits in life and the news. Remember McDonald's $2 million cup of steaming hot coffee? Newt Gingrich's pet name for Hillary Clinton? They live again in Shear Madness...
...already banished his two sons to the Home Theater. They have cranked up the set-top box they got for Christmas. Patch this baby into your HDTV, and you can cruise the Metaverse, wander the Web and choose from among several user-friendly operating systems, each one rife with automatic help systems, customer-service hot lines and intelligent agents. The theater's subwoofer causes our silverware to buzz around like sheet-metal hockey players, and amplified explosions knock swirling nebulas of tiny bubbles loose from the insides of our champagne glasses. Those low frequencies must penetrate the young brain somehow...
...aware most of us (myself included) haven't been able to keep up with the doings of the sports world. The last few weeks have been rife with interesting, nay, bizarre, events from the sporting life...