With Little to Cheer About, Detroit Turns to Ex-NBA Star
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 10th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
With Little to Cheer About, Detroit Turns to Ex-NBA Star
DETROIT — Before rising to national prominence as a standout at Syracuse University, before a stellar career with the Detroit Pistons earned him a spot in basketball’s Hall of Fame, Dave Bing shared a cramped bedroom with three siblings in a poor Northeast Washington neighborhood.
Friendship With Conservative Thomas Complicates Supreme Court Chances for Georgia’s Sears
One day in the early 1990s, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas telephoned Leah Ward Sears to introduce himself. She was a rising star in Georgia’s legal community, a relatively liberal black woman on the state’s conservative Supreme Court. Thomas had read about political attacks against Sears and…
In Court Pick, Obama Seeks to Be Bold but Not Provocative
As President Obama searches for a replacement for Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, those who know him best think he is looking for a rare combination: a pragmatic barrier-breaker who will be a distinguished jurist and whose nomination will cool the partisan warfare that has marked recent…
Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists’ Dinner
When President Obama made his debut as the nation’s Stand-Up-in-Chief last night, the star attraction at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, no one in his administration was safe from his one-liners.
