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...glaringly spotlighted the Administration's inept handling of civil rights -- that it all but eclipsed Alexander's generally well-received nomination. The drama hurtled Administration officials into a rushed series of consultations. Result: a policy flip that flopped spectacularly. Civil rights leaders blasted the White House for threatening to slam expensive college doors in the faces of under- represented minority students. Conservative critics lambasted the decision for its failure to reject unambiguously racial preferences of any kind...
There were backboard-moving slam dunks by a guy named Wilkins, there were in-your-face, there were in-your-face back-to-halfcourt rejections, there were mouthing-off technical fouls, there were lots-o-shots and lots-o-points and there was even a scout from the Boston Celtics...
...first five minutes of the game was very NBA-ish. Harvard scored on two slam dunks, one layup, one tip-in follow and a baseline jumper. Asker answered with a pair of layups and two three-point jumpers...
Leading the slamfest was Asker's Ellington Wilkins, whose 10 field goals included five slam dunks. Wilkins, who graduated from Houston Baptist University, finished the game with 26 points on 10-for-13 from the field, if you want to call one foot above the rim the field...
Harvard was getting in on the act too. Mitchell got the two early slams, Tarik Campbell added a dunk off the break and Tyler Rullman got a not-so-emphatic slam later in the first half to bring the partisan crowd to its feet. Even in Norwegian, a "slam dunk" is still a slam dunk--a crowd-raising, arena-rattling display of emphatic domination...