Word: throwing
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...Education Fund lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Jenkins case, "is probably the first time a Supreme Court Justice has questioned the reasoning in Brown." That it came from a black, says Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., "makes me want to throw...
...this lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key era, however, it is hard to drum up sympathy for poor, often minority, often guilty defendants. "In the war on crime," says Nicholas Chiarkas, Wisconsin's state public defender, "many people think of public defenders as representing the enemy." John Holdridge, director of the Mississippi and Louisiana Capital Trial Assistance Project, agrees. "This is the most unpopular issue around," he says...
...talent like Ray Ozzie, the creator of Notes, who spent 10 years developing the software. "The downside of IBM is that it takes 42 people to make a decision," says Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus, who now is an adjunct professor at M.I.T. "If that happens, Ray will throw up his hands." Gerstner tries to sound reassuring. "We certainly don't want to suck Lotus into the giant company that IBM is and destroy what makes it so successful and unique," he says. "They can run their daily lives the way they've always done...
Olajuwon has taken his talent to progressively higher levels, adding a new dimension every year: better free-throw shooting, a base-line jumper, a new hook shot. The player who once said, "I like to dunk and dunk and dunk" now has a dozen shots in his arsenal. He is a center who plays with the work ethic of a point guard and the range of a small forward, and the evolution of his game has led to the revolution of the pivot position. Shaq is reminiscent of Wilt Chamberlain. Hakeem is, well, Hakeem...
...with his girlfriend Sally. And he has committed himself to a two-day trip with the troubled Paul, their ultimate destination the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown: "If your son begins suddenly to fall at a headlong rate, you must through the agency of love and greater age throw him a line and haul him back...