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...Wednesday's melee with the Miami Heat. After a 90 minute hearing between the NBA and the National Basketball Players' Association, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that league commissioner David Stern had complete authority to hand down the suspensions. The players claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union. The ruling, which upholds the harshest suspension in NBA playoff history, left the Knicks without the services of Patrick Ewing and Allen Houston in Game 6 of the playoffs Friday...
...have gone down so badly had Freeh not promoted as his No. 2 the supervisor of the whole operation, Larry Potts. Only when Justice Department officials intervened with news that Potts and his headquarters aides were under criminal investigation for their roles did Freeh acknowledge his "blind spot" and suspend his friend...
...never published. Until now. That, at any rate, is the premise of Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son (Random House; 242 pages; $22), a novel that purports to be a first-person memoir written by Jesus. Questions will immediately occur, even to readers most willing to suspend their disbelief for the sake of the narrative to come. When did Jesus write this story, and for that matter, where? Why did he wait nearly 2,000 years to present his own Gospel? Why did he choose Random House to publish...
...committee's subsequent decision to suspend only the students who had forcibly ejected some of the deans from University Hall touched off a fire storm of controversy on campus...
...ancient belief systems. And for scores of spiritual seekers, it worked. Some of Do and Ti's followers had been with them as long as 20 years; they were rich and poor, black, white and Latino--people who shared little more than a willingness, or a need, to suspend disbelief, and in the end to participate in a common death...