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Article #290Re: Professional athletes in Olympics?
From: Elizabeth G. Levy
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:21
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:21
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In article <490@audfax.audiofax.com> brian@audiofax.com (Brian Troxell) writes: >In article <10AUG199222593503@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes: > >[About the Dream Team] > >>There was no background explanatory material in the story. >>Could somebody bring me up to date on this situation? > >No wonder this guy never thinks anything in the news is real! > >How could _anyone_ not hear about the Dream Team even once over the past >year?! Incredible. > >Get your head out of the sand, Packer. Stop trying to debunk everything in >the New York Times long enough to read something else for awhile. You >might learn something. In defense of the NYT, the Dream Team has appeared in the Sports section each and every day of the Olympics (whether to document the latest slaughter, or some human interest story involving Sir Charles slugging some player from one of the, uh, lesser teams), and for quite a while before Barcelona. Perhaps Mr. Packer spends most of his time simply looking at the grainy B&W pictures of Bosnia without reading anything? -- This is not a .signature
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!egl1 From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) Subject: Re: Professional athletes in Olympics? Message-ID: <1992Aug11.182144.21470@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixf.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) Organization: Columbia University References: <10AUG199222593503@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <490@audfax.audiofax.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:21:44 GMT Lines: 28