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...years away from NBA-style unions and agents, a team has almost total control over a player's rights. The P.L.A. would fight to keep him. He led the Rockets to five national championships. Says Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Donn Nelson, whose team tabbed Wang in this year's draft: "When we drafted him, we understood the challenges of getting him over to play...
Jedediah Purdy, 24, may have been born in the 1970s, but he grew up in the 1870s. Home was a hillside West Virginia farm plowed by a team of Percheron draft horses. School was his parents' kitchen, his neighbors' fields. Town was a country crossroads with two stores, and entertainment a new book from the library. And though the young man with the Old Testament name and the Mark Twain upbringing later went on to study at Harvard and Yale, mixing with the privileged and the trend-conscious, his heart remained in the hills, beneath the oaks...
There have been some innovations in the past 12 months--the new I-bond, whose interest rate rises and falls with inflation; the EasySaver plan, which features automatic bank-draft purchases; and PC purchasing via a bank. Next up: online purchases direct from the Treasury with no commissions or fees. Treasury will be trumpeting these new features--which private industry caught onto years ago--in a marketing campaign next year...
This odd grouping, however, is having trouble staying united. The American Civil Liberties Union, which helped draft the current bill, as well as the 1993 law, now opposes it unless an amendment makes clear that religious claims cannot be used to defeat civil rights laws. Civil rights advocates are concerned about such groups as the World Church of the Creator, for example, which claims a religious belief in promoting the white race. Gay lawyers say the bill would allow conservative Christian landlords to refuse to rent to gay people even in states with laws protecting lesbians and gays from housing...
...University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Scheck has taught for more than 20 years. The clinic is a low-key place, hidden away on the 11th floor of an office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society Institute, help with the rest...