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...nothing else, this should contain some serious on-court antics, with three serious head cases in New York's John Starks and Anthony Mason and the Spurs' Dennis Rodman...
...dead or deadbeats or accused of killing somebody. Are Pete Rose, Mike Tyson or O.J. Simpson role models? Only if the role is on a TV mini-series. The list of troubled sports stars goes on and on. Tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati's substance abuse. Incorrigible rebounder Dennis Rodman's hairstyling and discipline problems. And, of course, Tonya Harding. It all makes you wonder if there is any hope for sports heroism...
...Dennis Rodman: "An NBA championship, an MVP trophy" ...well, no, actually, try more gullible ad executives and CEO's willing to pass out million-dollar endorsement deals like Halloween candy...
Despite the enthusiastic support of the Yemeni people, a successful coalition between North and South seemed unlikely. The two countries, notes Peter Rodman, director of Middle East studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, "had different social and political evolutions." While both were dominated for three centuries by the Ottoman Turks, the Southern capital of Aden was seized by the British in 1839. After achieving independence from Britain in 1967, the South became the first Arab Marxist state. The North threw off the Turks after World War I and has been ruled by conservative tribes ever since...
...read with some surprise Darren Kilfara's recent poem ("Poetry in Motion," sports column, May 5, 1994). In particular, the line about Rodman's technical fouls was offensive: "To hear him then whine, sounded quite like...