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Kenyon Martin: This Cincinnati basketball player gets the award for Unluckiest Player Ever. A consensus All-American, Martin injured himself the week before the beginning of the tournament, costing his team the No. 1 seed. Cincinnati then lost to Tulsa in the second round. That means the evil Duke has the best chance of advancing to the finals. Coincidence? I think...
...February, Black History Month. History lives - in sometimes ugly ways. A few days ago in Oklahoma, a state commission recommended that some $12 million in reparations should be paid to survivors of the Tulsa race riot, which occurred 79 years ago, in late May, early June 1921. The riot, which may have been the bloodiest in American history, left as many as 300 black people dead. An armed white mob, inflamed by rumors that a black man had raped a white woman, looted and burned the thriving black community of Greenwood to the ground, destroying some 1,200 structures...
...With a small-business guy, it's a day-to-day struggle to survive," says Larry Mocha. He is president and owner of Air Power Systems Co., a Tulsa, Okla., maker of air cylinders and other parts for trucks that his father founded in 1964. At times, Mocha recalls, he had to borrow on his personal credit card to meet his payroll. A year ago, though, he bought the assets of a local machine shop whose owner was "tired of being a small businessman." The acquisition enabled Air Power to double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking...
...cottage" in Burgundy. Sometimes the accommodations are more modest than what you're offering in exchange. But timing and location can make up the difference. If you live in a less well-known area, you can write to prospects, regaling them with the hidden charms of greater Toledo or Tulsa, or luring them with the special amenities of your community: tennis or golf, for example...
After facing nationally ranked opponents in Tulsa two weeks ago and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championships last weekend, the Crimson find this weekend considerably less challenging. None of the opposition boast anyone in upper echelon of the ITA rankings...