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...care what they say," says Jordan fan Michael Sims, 27, of Detroit. "I don't think the NBA will allow it." Even in Piston country, Jordan reigns. Which is a political miracle if you remember that Jordan disrupted Detroit's dynasty, with a little help from Jackson, who taught him the importance of limiting himself for the good of the Bulls. Alan Jones, 30, also of Detroit, rants against Chicago but deifies Jordan: "He's a gentleman. He's not a boaster. He could say, 'I'm the best thing since fried ice cream.' But that's not part...
...Jordan it always mattered--playing good defense, he was taught at Chapel Hill, was what won close games, and what he always hungered for was championships, not individual honors. Early on in his professional career, he mentioned casually to reporters that he hoped one day to be named defensive player of the year as well as MVP. A young writer named Jan Hubbard, then with the Dallas Morning News, wrote at the time that it could not be done, that it took too much additional energy to be that kind of defensive star and that no one would have enough...
DIED. LEO BUSCAGLIA, 74, avuncular, affectionate professor and author of numerous books on the permutations of love and self-acceptance; of a heart attack; near Lake Tahoe, Nev. Relentlessly upbeat, Buscaglia taught at U.S.C. for nearly 20 years, including a course in 1969 called Love 1A. He became known as Dr. Hug because of his habit of embracing the thousands of fans worldwide who turned out in droves to hear his encouraging aphorisms and elevated four of his books to the best-seller list at one time...
Bloom is a scholar with far ranging interests,Fineberg said. Had he been a professor at Harvard,Fineberg said Bloom might have taught outside theSchool of Public Health--in the Medical School,for example...
What does interest Stein is the nuts and bolts of legal practice, and few do it better. If the Lewinsky family had trouble discerning William Ginsburg's legal strategy, they should find Stein a welcome change. He is a skilled litigator who has written books on trial tactics and taught advocacy at Harvard. And he delights judges by keeping his arguments brutally simple. He's famous for answering big firms' kitchen-sink briefs with brilliantly terse responses. He once proposed a $250 fine on lawyers for citing cases from before 1950, and $1,000 for citing law-review articles. When...