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Perhaps so, but the no-money-down concept has created an industry in which it is often more profitable to preach real estate investing than to practice it. The pioneers were Robert G. Allen, 37, and Albert Lowry, 58, who wrote rival best-selling books on the subject during the 1970s and early 1980s. An updated edition of Allen's Nothing Down zoomed back onto the best-seller lists last year. Offering dozens of financing tactics, Allen and Lowry were soon so much in demand that they formed companies and hired dozens of disciples to go out and preach...
However, the image of professional athletes as complacent money grubbers has lately been suffering. Michael Jordan, pro basketball's most sublime subject, missed 64 games this year with a wounded foot but declined the Chicago Bulls' invitation to shirk the remainder of the season. Jordan would not even let the Bulls curtail his court time. "I am a basketball player," he declared, and rejoiced in scoring 49 and 63 points even while losing to the Boston Celtics...
...First Baseman Steve Balboni had not dived to the bag in such a heroic frenzy that Second Baseman Frank White laughed out loud. "There are times," White says, "when a whole team reaches down for something that's even better than winning. I know it sounds impossible." On the subject of impossibilities, consider three hits, 18 men retired in a row and a 1-0 victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks out," Leonard says, "it was like I finally was home. Everyone ran out on the field except Mick...
...Survive Them, is now as busy as ever. His latest theatrical movie, Clockwise, opened last week in New York City. But he seems to be especially fond of his Video Arts projects, for which he turns out many of the scripts. He and his staff research each subject by interviewing business people. "It is infinitely harder," says he, "than writing half an hour for television, and much more interesting." And apparently more fulfilling. Explains Cleese: "I always felt that if I appeared at the pearly gates and was asked, 'What were you?' and I said, 'A comic,' there would...
...still an amazing trajectory, one that No Direction Home puts into thoughtful and compassionate perspective. Almost two decades in the writing, this is the first biography to have enjoyed such close cooperation from the subject. Still, boundaries were set down early. "You can't ask me about how I sleep," Dylan announced. "You can't ask me about how I make it, and you cannot ask me what I think I am doing here. Other than that, we'll just get along fine...