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While the men's NCAA tournament is grabbing all of the headlines and pools, the quarterfinal rounds of the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) start this weekend...
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...Tolstoy says, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, so too each child who sleeps through class and cheats on exams has his or her personal story to tell. Suzanne Somers' is about growing up with an alcoholic father. Somers, who played the voluptuous nit-brain Chrissy on the TV hit Three's Company, describes family meals that ended in a cascade of broken dishes and foul-mouthed rages that left her cowering in the closet. As she got older she ran away in other ways: school problems; an early, unwanted pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check...
...Knight had it all: an Olympic gold medal, two N.C.A.A. championships and an NIT crown. Then came the 1984-85 season. His basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with...
When Wolf said she did not think questioning government promotion of religious practices was nit-picking, Danehy slammed his fist down and shouted, "Bullshit...