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After reading your report on the brawl involving basketball's Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons and courtside fans [Dec. 6], I realized that one word failed to make it into the story: respect. Would anyone else's reaction have been different from Pacers forward Ron Artest's after getting hit by a full cup of beer? Artest was made a scapegoat by the National Basketball Association. To me, that shows that the NBA and the fans do not respect the players. NBA basketball is played by some of the most magnificent athletes in the world, and they are intense competitors. Contact...
CHARGED. RON ARTEST, 25, STEPHEN JACKSON, 26, DAVID HARRISON, 22, ANTHONY JOHNSON, 30, and JERMAINE O'NEAL, 26, NBA players for the Indiana Pacers; and five Detroit fans; with misdemeanor assault and battery--and in the case of Bryant Jackson, a fan who threw a chair, an additional felony charge--committed during a brawl at the end of a Detroit Pistons--Pacers game on Nov 19; by Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca...
...roll. In the third quarter alone, equipment maker Caterpillar attributed $102 million of sales largely to the benefits of a falling dollar. General Motors is opening new Cadillac dealerships in Europe. "The drop in the value of the dollar certainly helps," says James Taylor, Cadillac manager in Detroit. Other U.S. multinationals are reaping windfalls too, converting overseas revenues into the weak dollar and getting more of them...
...just escape this jam without a scratch. That's a lot of ifs. But, thankfully, everyone has something at stake. --With reporting by Steve Barnes/ Little Rock, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Matt Forney/ Beijing, Jim Frederick/Tokyo, Peter Gumbel and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris, Eric Roston/Washington, Michael Schuman/Hong Kong, Joe Szczesny/ Detroit, Charles P. Wallace/Berlin and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago...
SHAWN PATRICK SMITH, attorney for Detroit Pistons fan John Green, charged in the brawl at the Pistons--Indiana Pacers game...