Word: spectacularness
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...whom, at least, anti-Duke sentiment is a hallowed tradition. Instead, it's a whole lot of people who, for reasons that continue to escape me, find everything about Duke basketball to be deeply distasteful. And for a team that's never done anything but play solid, passionate, occasionally spectacular basketball, that seems an unfair return...
...What really makes me bristle is the assumption that this year's spectacular showing has been easy for Duke - that these kids are just waltzing through the tournament, pausing to remove their silver spoons just long enough to play the games. This year's team has fought its way back from multiple injuries (Carlos Boozer's broken foot, Jason Williams' badly sprained ankle), several crushing defeats (Carolina, Maryland, Stanford) and a mid-season slump at the line. This Blue Devil team has very little depth from the bench and is markedly smaller than most teams they play. Does that sound...
...Gore and squandered them. They ran a straight-faced, meticulously chronological, here's-what-you-missed recap of the whole show, Week 1 through Week 8. Twenty-four days in the Outback. New footage? Maybe 10 minutes all told, and nothing spectacular...
...investment of human effort and technology in experiments to clone humans represents the worst type of scientific endeavor [SOCIETY, Feb. 19]. Why is it that Nature, in all its splendid manifestations, tends everywhere to spectacular diversity and mind-boggling detail, yet whenever we seek to copy it, we achieve only bleak standardization and stifling unity? Our scientific obsession with the cloning of spiritless matter will lead us to further spiritual impoverishment and predictable genetic disaster. MARTHE MULLER Cape Town...
...Meantime, the Republicans do not inspire confidence that they have overcome their past tendencies toward spectacular acts of self-destruction. The party's smart money last year settled on George W. Bush precisely because he was thought immune to the party's traditional suicidal impulses, to "extremism in the defense of liberty," as Goldwater called it, and to ideological seppuku as practiced by Newt. Bush may yet prove tougher, smarter and foxier than some previous Republicans...