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...teams and team owners that this is a technology worth pursuing - and investing in. The league will have its chance this weekend as owners flock to the All-Star game, the NBA's equivalent to an annual convention. Says Rokosa: "You know the saying a picture is worth a thousand words? This one is worth two-thousand...
...ravaged by plant closings. I saw that the problems people faced weren't simply local in nature - that the decision to close a steel mill was made by distant executives; that the lack of textbooks and computers in schools could be traced to the skewed priorities of politicians a thousand miles away; and that when a child turns to violence, there's a hole in his heart no government could ever fill...
...says. The tribal chief's family had had its vicissitudes: the communists who ruled Afghanistan till 1989 had stripped them of their land, and the teenage Noorzai went off to fight alongside the mujahedin in their war against the occupying Soviet forces. After the Soviets left, Noorzai made several thousand dollars recovering Stinger missiles at the behest of U.S. agents. After the war, Noorzai allegedly returned to the family trade. By 1993 the DEA was describing Noorzai as a "wealthy heroin warlord and well-known drug trafficker...
Good news for the (sex) freaks among us who just wanna be loved: three months ago, in a fiction seminar, a girl passed the following note to a boy: “Want to have a 24-hour affair?” They are still happily dating nearly three thousand hours later...The tone was perhaps slightly less romantic at the Harvard Ski Club’s Ski Trip, where one freshman opportunist happily jumped between the beds of three junior ladies—nothing keeps the cold out better than young blood...Except for porn, apparently...
...rebellion. Last week what the Palestinians call the intifadeh (uprising) proceeded, and the peace process did not. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir returned home from a nine-day visit to the U.S., in which he had resisted the American proposal for an international peace conference. Shamir's supporters, including several thousand Jewish settlers from the territories who waved machine guns and danced the hora, gave him a hero's welcome in Jerusalem. They chanted, ''Blessed be he who comes back without a conference.'' At least 100 Palestinians had died in the uprising by last week, but for the first time...