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...reign as national- team coach. "There are no restraints on this team," says Wade, an Athens vet who contends that Brown discouraged him from trying to score too much. "That was kind of our problem in '04. One guy could do this, another guy couldn't." Krzyzewski's vibe has fired up the team; the practices are crisp and competitive. "The way he can connect with everybody, it's unbelievable," says Brad Miller, Team USA big man (at 7 ft.), who plays for the Sacramento Kings. "I'd have our [NBA] team pay him a couple of grand to talk...
...players appreciate the freedom. "There are no restraints on this team," notes Wade, another Athens vet who said then-U.S. coach Larry Brown discouraged him from scoring. "That was kind of our problem in '04 - one guy could do this, another guy couldn't." Krzyzewski's vibe has fired up the team; the practices are crisp and competitive. "I'd have our [NBA] team pay him a couple of grand to talk to us," says Brad Miller, a Team USA big man who plays for the Sacramento Kings. "The way he can connect with everybody, it's unbelievable...
...Wehbe's hometown of Beirut was, in many ways, a kind of Middle Eastern New York: a vibrant cultural capital where an educated homegrown populace rubbed elbows with a parade of jet-setting foreigners. By contrast, the far more conservative Damascus gives off an Arab-flavored Soviet vibe, from the paranoid residents and omnipresent secret police to the 30-year-old junkers rolling along the streets. The flow of refugees from Beirut to Damascus, therefore, has made for an odd tableau: the normally dreary city is suddenly teeming with sharply dressed Lebanese and foreigners figuring out their next move...
...been rocky. Allen spent much of her childhood either running away from or being kicked out of schools, more than a dozen of them. It made her wise for her age, and she delivers her reflections on everyday life in natty couplets. Allen sings over the sunny Caribbean vibe of LDN, "There was a little old lady, who was walkin' down the road, She was struggling with bags from Tesco/ There were people from the City having lunch in the park/ I believe that it's called alfresco." The little old lady then gets mugged. Allen bemoans modern life over...
...some way? Do something nice back to you? Give the money to a charity?” I was pleading with him. He suggested a charity that meant something to him, but offered a corollary: “all I really want is for you to keep the vibe going, ya know?” I didn’t know. But I began to understand by watching this extraordinary man’s magnanimous example. The notion of going slightly out of your way to touch a stranger wasn’t just the basis of a contrived tear...