Len Bias gone, but not forgotten By Bomani JonesSpecial to Page 2 Last summer I bought a Len Bias throwback jersey out of the back of a white Ford Tempo. Considering that throwbacks were going the way of Cross Colours and Hypercolor shirts, it was an odd purchase. But this was a ...
She hasn’t forgotten the tears in Molly Lansing Davis’ (Kristen Vaganos) eyes when she told her daughter about her plans to appeal the original decision in his case.Alexis wants to be a lawyer again more than anything, but she knows that if her appeal is squashed, her heart will be ...
Three of my walls are glass. One of them is cracked, and a small piece, about the size of my hand, is missing from its bottom corner. I made the hole with a baseball bat Mack gave me for my sixth birthday. After that he took the bat away, but he let me keep the baseball that...
In 1993, Stephen Wolf, United’s Chief Executive Officer, revised the branding to a dark blue and grey fuselage with blue stripes on the tail. The Tulip was shrunk down in size but remained. This was called the “Battleship” livery and was supposed to portray a more professional, global ...
But John Wilkes, famed throughout the state for his hospitality, really knew how to give a barbecue. The long trestled picnic tables, covered with the finest of the Wilkes'linen, always stood under the thickest shade, with backless benches on either side; and chairs, hassocks and ...
As far as I could see, she didn’t take any better care of her apparel than I did mine, but I owned shirts that looked like they’d been run through a car engine half an hour after I removed the price tags, and she had socks from high school that were still as white as palace...
she would look a thousand things more. Of course, she would do it all in a ladylike way. She wouldn’t even dream of saying to him boldly that she loved him—that would never do. But the manner of telling him was a detail that troubled her not at all. She had managed such situat...
I may not have eaten healthy, but I didn’t overeat. So, here’s another episode in The Story of My Life. My first dining experience in a traditional Korean restaurant, sitting on the floor and using metal chopsticks, wasn’t a total disaster, and I did learn from it. It was the ...
“Oh, aye,” he said, and smiled, but his eyes were intent on her hands. “How long since ye’ve fired a gun, cousin?” “Not that long,” she said tersely. She hadn’t expected it to come back. “Maybe six, seven months.” “What were ye hunting then?” he asked, head...
Some picked-on IT professionals say that nobody ever thinks about the job they do until something goes wrong or someone can’t get something they need. I haven’t found that to be the case at all. We wear the coolest geek-shirts, you all come to us to talk about the latest gadget ...