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...Russell's day, the '50s and '60s, "a good white forward" was the N.B.A.'s notion of the Holy Grail. Everyone was out searching. The common anxiety over Caucasian attendance was as plain as the pale nose on every twelfth man's face. And it was expressed in the extreme whenever a team like the Atlanta Hawks traded Paul Silas, a great forward, for Gary Gregor, a white one. Sixteen years later, the mind still reels. "Now all the whites in the league can play," testifies Silas, an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets. "Well, anyway, the majority...
...curious how a novel is there waiting to fall off a tree, and you have to be there to catch it," explains Carlos Fuentes, 57, who waited nearly 30 years for The Old Gringo to ripen into his twelfth novel. His patience has paid off. This week, a month after being published in English, it becomes the first novel by a Mexican to be a best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo...
...reader persevered to the twelfth paragraph of the story, he or she would learn that I am indeed leaving Harvard next year--but only for a one year visit at another school. As I told your reporter, this leave was arranged several years ago, a fact conveniently omitted from the story. The innuendo in the story's statement that I have no "present" plans to leave permanently is unwarranted...
...estimated 3500 to 4000 Harvard students skipped dinner at college dining halls last night to raise money for world hunger, as Harvard participated in Oxfam's twelfth annual fast...
...Botha delivered a finger-wagging sermon that warned foreign governments not to "push us too far." His intransigence only hardened demands for bold reforms. Whereas many critics were disposed in August to consider a gradual easing of apartheid, by last week, as Botha's state of emergency entered its twelfth week and two more blacks were killed by riot police, they seemed unwilling to embrace reforms that fell shy of a total renunciation of all racialistic policies...