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...Barnum, Bill Veeck and someone out on a day pass, Richard taught his daughters tennis from instructional videos he had bought. While living in Compton, Calif., with little money, he said he was flipping channels and saw Romanian player Virginia Ruzici win a $35,000 check. He then hid his wife's birth-control pills in order to create a tennis player. He says he even got a friend to steal her purse so she wouldn't have her pills. In a new book, Venus Envy, Richard tells author L. Jon Wertheim that he owns the air rights over India...
...that's not just the NBA marketing machine talking. Today's game requires track-star speed and agility, the hand-eye coordination of a .300 hitter and the ability to withstand linebacker-style punishment delivered by guys who are often much bigger than linebackers. Iverson, 26, a former Virginia high school-quarterback phenom, takes hits without fear. He's developed a jump shot that's excellent from 24 feet away and deadly at midrange. Then there's his speed. In his college days at Georgetown, sports photographers actually had to ditch their autofocus cameras in favor of more sensitive manual...
...Thursday afternoon, Sept. 13: The four Senators from the states under attack - Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton of New York, and John Warner and George Allen of Virginia - walked into the Oval Office for a private meeting with Bush. Bush "seemed very calm, confident, relaxed and in charge," New York's senior senator told to me later. Schumer and the others were struck by how the private Bush seemed so much more the commander in chief and the dominant figure - a far cry from the the-deer-in-headlights aura he gave off in some TV shots immediately following...
Even though it now operates out of a 400-acre West Virginia compound, Resistance has global lineage. The label was founded outside Windsor, Ontario, by a Canadian neo-Nazi skinhead. In 1999, after it was purchased by Americans, Resistance bought a Swedish label, Nordland Records, doubling its musical inventory...
...born in Johannesburg, in South Africa. My family moved to the U.S. when I was two, and then we moved back to South Africa when I was 13. But then we lived back and forth between Johannesburg and Virginia...