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...players." Nelson said that early on, before they added Dennis Rodman, himself a skilled defensive player. It was typical of Jordan, of the almost unique completeness of his game, that he willed himself to excel on defense as well as offense. He had been well coached in college; Dean Smith, sensing Jordan's offensive brilliance and his surpassing natural ability and that he had the possibility of a professional career without limitations, pushed him early on to work on his defensive game. Jordan did that in college and then in the pros, unusual for a young player who came...
...almost perfect fundamentals he brought every night and the shrewd sense of each game's tempo, which made him almost a coach on the floor. When Jordan was at his prime, it was common among some professional basketball people to joke about the Carolina program and to zing Dean Smith for, it was presumed, suppressing the greatness of Jordan's game during his college years. But the reverse was true. It has become obvious that Smith did not limit Jordan's game, but instead made it what it is. Smith and his assistants knew from the first time they...
...beginning of the end came in early May, when the Lewinsky family decided to bring in Judy Smith, who had worked in George Bush's press office, to deal with the media. Sources said Smith, a media adviser for Marcia Lewis' lawyer, Billy Martin, since the scandal broke, was brought in over the objections of Ginsburg, who thought he was handling Monica's public relations just fine. But the Lewinskys were exasperated by his TV appearances and his public feuding with Starr. Sources also said Ginsburg had angered Lewinsky's father by submitting hefty, unitemized bills. Ginsburg denies he objected...
...explains that "both organizations will be developing and completing their own story ideas." And the results won't appear only on your tube: this week's TIME includes an exclusive account of America's secret use of poison gas during the Vietnam War. The reporters? CNN senior producer Jack Smith, producer April Oliver and correspondent Peter Arnett...
Perhaps no one employed this strategy with more profound results than the incomparable Billie Holiday, who paved the way for an entire generation of black women vocal stylists, including Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and R.-and-B. singers like Aretha Franklin. Although Holiday, who counted Bessie Smith among her most important musical influences, was not a blues singer per se, her music was deeply rooted in the blues tradition. As a jazz musician working primarily with the idiom of white popular song, Holiday used the blues tradition to inject suggestions of perspectives more complicated than those the lyrics themselves contained...