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Four hours after the press conference, the Indiana Pacers announced that Bird--No. 33 in the rafters--was their new coach. Bird will get an estimated $4.5 million a year to return home. His predecessor, Larry Brown, was just lured to the Philadelphia 76ers for $5 million a year. Hmmm. Kind of makes Phil Jackson wonder what he's worth, what with the Chicago Bulls headed for another title...
David Layzer is the Menzel Professor of Astrophysics. He has taught in the Core program and its predecessor, the General Education program, for more than 25 years...
...Pynchon's new novel is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor. This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night in Philadelphia during the Christmas season of 1786. Cherrycoke is given to utterances such as the following: "The Pilgrim, however long or crooked...
These newly-instigated policies stem from the numerous complaints made by black students alleging racial insensitivity on the part of Harvard police officers during the 12 year tenure of Riley's predecessor, Paul E. Johnson...
...YORK CITY: The latest scientific attempt to build a better brain goes on display Saturday when world chess champion Garry Kasparov gives a rematch to IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer. The new, improved Deep Blue can think twice as fast as the predecessor that lost to Kasparov 4-2 last year. Tutored by international grand chess champion Joel Benjamin, the machine now knows more about chess as well. But Kasparov remains confident. His battle plan? Detect weak points and keep switching strategies, betting that Deep Blue will be slow to adapt...