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This is a story of a pot of gold, but instead of a rainbow, there's a lawsuit over it. Next Monday JANN WENNER is due to show up in Idaho with a mason jar of old gold coins as the first step in a court case over who owns it. Construction worker GREGORY CORLISS, above, right, claims he was digging a driveway on Wenner's woodsy hideaway in Idaho when he noticed some coins in the soil. On further inspection, he and his boss, LARRY ANDERSON, found a mason jar full of them, dating from 1857 to 1914. Corliss...
...roll. "I have been subjected--I guess that's the word--to that music by my children for years," he says. "So we have lots of records at home. But I never played them very much." Yet after Atlantic Records co-chairman Ahmet Ertegun and Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner took him on a trip to Graceland and New Orleans to learn more about rock, Pei got interested. (He now listens to some rock, though he admits it's mostly oldies. "I haven't gone very far beyond the Beatles," he says...
...think there were two games in particular that really laid the foundation for our senior season. On December 23, 1991, we lost a close game against Melrose on our home floor at Wenner. I remember the date for the simple reason that it was the last time that we lost at home during my high school career. The feeling I had while sitting at the concession stand after the game wallowing in hot dogs and Coke is still vivid...
Until Lexington, Asa had never cleanly dunked in a game. With Wenner at a feverish pitch on that day, however, he did it. I can still see Rashad Wilson losing the ball at midcourt and Pat Rubeski picking it up. I can still see Pat turning his head to find Asa--now 6'7"--flying up the court. I can still see Pat unselfishly but knowingly dishing the ball to Asa at the foul line. I can still see Asa taking one more step and then launching himself into the air. Asa sent the ball through the net with...
Every time I step into Wenner Field House, I remember our team and I remember winning our championship. But long after the banner at Wenner that has all of our names from the team is removed, long after the trophics are removed from the trophy case, long after I forget that we even won a state championship, I will remember the lasting friends I made on that team. I will the remember little moments--Asa's first dunk, for example--that have special significance...