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...some excellent answers. She has fused her native land's agonies and contradictions into intense portraits of ordinary lives: that of a reactionary but troubled landowner (The Conservationist), for example, or of a white housewife caught up in the melee of a successful black revolution (July's People). A Sport of Nature is no less detailed and gripping than its predecessors, but its reach is more ambitious: a panoramic view not only of what has already taken place in South Africa but of what the future, inevitably or at least imaginatively, will become...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association will present its Final Four this weekend in a domed stadium in New Orleans too spacious for the intimate exercise of basketball and yet too small for the size of the event. From a regional sport with a national name, college basketball has grown into a national game with a regional flavor, the most consistently satisfying championship on the calendar. It has become a spectacle on the order of the Kentucky Derby, in the sense that the aficionados constitute the minority of the spectators. There cannot be this many basketball nuts...
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More important, perhaps, the purchase of AMC's Jeep line helps Chrysler, which has led the way with such innovations as the minivan, leap into a market segment where it is not represented: the fast-growing sport-utility line. Some 732,000 sport-utility vehicles, including such models as the Jeep Cherokee, Ford Bronco II and Chevy S-10 Blazer, were sold last year, offering a new kind of competition to the suburban station wagon. That total could reach 1 million...
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