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March Thu, 23- at U.C.-Irvine Tourney -- Sun, 26 (at Irvine, Ca.) -- Wed, 29 at U.C.L.A. 11:00 a.m. Thu, 30 at San Diego State 2:00 p.m. Fri, 31 at U.S. International...
...next decade he supported himself in London by writing advertising copy. He wed a British woman and fathered a son. (That union ended in divorce in 1987; Rushdie is now married to the American author Marianne Wiggins.) His first novel, Grimus (1974), was a critical and commercial flop, but his second, Midnight's Children (1981), created an international sensation. The book hinged on an inspired conceit: that 1,001 babies born across the subcontinent on the stroke of Indian independence had acquired magical powers to communicate with one another. Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted...
...Professional demands are different; they take most of the fun out of it," says Abdul-Jabbar, who embraced Islam during his second season with the Milwaukee Bucks. His new name meant "generous and powerful servant of Allah." He jilted a girlfriend and wed a woman selected by his mentor, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. (The marriage ended after nine years and three children.) In 1973 seven members of Khaalis' family were murdered by Black Muslims in a Washington house bought by Kareem. Four years later, Khaalis participated in a siege of Government offices. He is now in a federal penitentiary...
...TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from Miss Vicki, whom he wed on the Tonight Show in 1969. -- ANDREW YOUNG, formerly a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is finishing his second four-year term as mayor of Atlanta...
...sign that the Bush Administration will be more accessible to outside ideas than its predecessor was. Boskin certainly hopes that is the case: "I've always taken very seriously the research of all schools of < thought. I didn't start out presuming they were wrong, because I wasn't wed to one camp or another." That sort of thinking should be a boon to the Bush Administration as it grapples with deficits and other problems that so far have proved too big and intractable for one narrow philosophy to solve...