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...fair. At all. Remember the highlight clips, the posters from the 1980s, when a skinny Michael Jordan soared above the seven-foot stiffs of the day, his knees knocking their noses, for a ferocious, "did that just happen?" dunk? Well, as amazing as he is, anointing Miami Heat superstar guard and NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade the rightful heir to His Airness is just silly - just as it was before with such flameouts as Harold Miner, or stars in their own right like Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant...
...just his third NBA season, Wade, 24, has carried the Heat on his sculpted shoulders to its first-ever NBA title (Michael didn't win one until his seventh season), taking over a series that was one part gripping basketball, two parts circus. There was Dallas coach Avery Johnson sequestering the Mavericks in Fort Lauderdale after blowing a 2-0 lead in Miami - no South Beach for you, Dirk Nowitzki. And Cuban conducting sweaty interviews from his treadmill while badmouthing the refs - some deserved - which earned him a $250,000 fine. For good measure, Nowitzki kicked a ball into...
...This might be the best rock band in the world," observed Rich, a forty-ish owner of a Nashville construction equipment company who had braved the crowds and the heat to get close enough to watch the band without binoculars. "This is the best thing going on in the U.S. this weekend." As for the notion that Radiohead was too highfalutin' for a festival that was famous for tie-dyed jam-band fans, he said, "I hear their new album is kind of a jam band record - most people don't know that...
...through a satellite phone by Time in his mountain lair, Bugti spoke of how he deals with pain (he is partially paralyzed in one leg), temperatures of 45?C, and the perils of waging a guerrilla war against 26,000 Pakistani soldiers in Baluchistan: "Physical hardship?pain, the extreme heat?this is all a state of mind. You either give into it or not. And I choose...
...explosion happened in an instant. Late in the afternoon of June 9, on a beach in Beit Lahiya, a blast of heat and shrapnel killed seven members of a family who had gathered there for a picnic: Ali Ghaliya, five of his children and his second wife. His first wife and four more of his children were wounded, as were dozens of other people. A Ramattan News Agency cameraman rode to the scene with an ambulance. After arriving, he filmed Huda Ghaliya, 10, stumbling through the carnage, wailing and beating her chest, calling out for her dead father...