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...problem with Jordan's return is not only that he can't possibly live up to the storybook ending he gave us in 1998--earning his sixth ring with a last-second championship-winning shot. The problem is that the motives for coming back--needing the attention, needing to play even when his 38-year-old body does not--violate the very myth of Jordan, the myth of absolute control. Babe Ruth, the 20th century's first star, was a gust of fat bravado and drunken talent, while Jordan ended the century by proving the elegance of resolve: Babe...
...Lucky, which has concerts every weekend featuring some of the Beijing underground's best and brashest. To find out who is performing, call (86-10) 6429-9109. Looking for punk acts? Head to the Bus Bar?constructed from three sawn-up buses?near Xueyuan Lu and the fourth ring road. To catch a ride, call (86-10) 6207-1631. Then there is the oddly named Happy Paradise, a club, bar and daytime ice rink in a dingy section of dilapidated hutongs, 300 m south of the railway track. Call (86-10) 6232-6821 for more information...
...JULY 14 9:50 A.M. As the ceremonial welcome for Musharraf ends in New Delhi, gunshots ring out over the mud-house village of Thajivara in southern Kashmir. Nadiya, 11, is walking the main road to school, 15 minutes away. Born in the second year of fighting, the sound is as familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania...
...night in a dog pound. Inspired, he vows to win the next contest. The prize? A week in a dirty car trunk RESHMILA SHAKYA Four-year-old girl is named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi...
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother and I had a storybook romance. I got birthday cards with checks inside, she got pictures of me, and occasionally we'd engage in short, awkward phone conversations--not dissimilar to the workings of a kiddie-porn ring. But the checks-and-pictures ritual lost its utility ever since I got a paid job and am no longer cute when I sit on the toilet naked, at least in the opinion of most people who look through my wallet photos. Our relationship has become more forced and awkward, as if she's suddenly clued into...