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College basketball in the East is tremendously overrated and overexposed. While great players come out of all areas in the West, everyone seems to think no ball player is any good unless he comes out of the New York or Philadelphia ghettoes. The only other semi-acknowledged (by these Eastern hoops gurus) source of basketball talent is the fields of Indiana, the land of the Hoosier myth. But only rarely does a great one emerge from the wheat fields and the single hoop planted in the grass by a dirt road...
...spite of Clinton's semi-admission of past infidelity, they believe that the Arkansas Governor will either win or run a close second in New Hampshire on Feb. 18. New Hampshire voters are notoriously fickle, but assuming Clinton does as well as expected, he will then probably do equally well on Super Tuesday (March 10). A win the following week in Illinois could virtually secure the prize. Clinton could be derailed if other high heels drop before those contests; his pollster describes his position as "precarious," and his campaign manager says, "More names will be coming." The questions are when...
...last time Harvard met up with the Clarkson, the Golden Knights squeaked out a 3-2 victory in the ECAC semi-finals last year en route to its conference title...
Most artists consider the destruction of their work a tragedy. Photographer Brett Weston has always considered it a necessity. Best known for haunting semi-abstract nature studies in the tradition of his famous father Edward, Weston vowed for years to destroy his negatives so that others could not make new prints from them after his death...
During most of the time America was falling in love with Williams -- charmed by his TV character Mork, thrilled by his semi-improvisational comedy on cable-TV specials, charmed again by his early movie roles (in Moscow on the Hudson, in Garp) -- his life was pretty much a mess. "I think I had my mid- life crisis at around 27," says Williams, who was 26 when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll...