Page 2 — THE CONWAY DAILY SUN, Saturday, May 21, 2011
Homeless man former basketball prodigy
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LOS ANGELES (NY Times) — Four decades ago, Lewis Brown had galloped down the court, all 6 feet, 11 inches and 260 pounds of him. The basketball center from Compton lead his high school to three championships in the 1970s, and whom he once played against in a high school tournament. He was a regional legend, destined for stardom. Now, at 56, Brown’s life is an arc of triumph and defeat, of lost opportunities and wasted potential. In his view, he is here — one amid the thousands in this city’s homeless — because of coaches who could not understand his emotional turmoil, who never appreciated his talent. His coaches and teammates remember it differently. He was, they say, a difficult player: erratic and combative. Family members said he was using cocaine at University of Nevada at Las Vegas. “Let me put it like this,” said his sister, Jeri Brown. “Drugs were his downfall.” The Las Vegas Sun last year ranked Mr. Brown the 20th best player in the UNLV’s history. Today, Mr. Brown is measured by what he should have been. “Lewis Brown had a lot of talent,” said Jerry Tarkanian, the legendary coach who recruited him at U.N.L.V. “But he never really lived up to his potential.”
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TRIPOLI, Libya (NY Times) — NATO officials expressed increased confidence Friday that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military position was weakening, and that allied airstrikes had prevented his forces from making sustained attacks on rebel forces and had driven him into hiding. A fire aboard a boat in the port of Tripoli that was hit by NATO airstrikes on Thursday.
“NATO nations and partners agree we have taken the initiative, we have the momentum,” said the alliance spokeswoman, Carmen Romero, said at a Friday news briefing, summarizing the view of NATO ambassadors who met earlier in the week. While highlighting a new confidence among NATO officials, the comments also appeared to continue a concerted NATO and American effort to increase the pres-
sure on Colonel Qaddafi and sow fear among his supporters. A NATO military spokesman, Wing Commander Mike Bracken, said of Colonel Qaddafi: “Effectively he has gone into hiding.” He said that NATO strikes had helped relieve sieges on the rebel-held cities of Ajdabiya and Misurata and forced the government into defensive positions around the eastern oil town of Brega.
Divisions are clear as Obama Fighting for the right to and Netanyahu discuss peace lie about military service
WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told President Obama on Friday that he shared his vision for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and then promptly listed a series of nonnegotiable conditions that have kept the two sides at an impasse for years. Sitting at Mr. Obama’s side in the Oval Office, leaning toward him and at times looking him directly in the eye, the Israeli leader bluntly rejected compromises of the sort Mr. Obama outlined the day before in hopes of reviving a moribund
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peace process. Mr. Obama, who had sought to emphasize Israel’s concerns in his remarks moments earlier, stared back. In his remarks, delivered after a meeting that stretched to more than two hours, far longer than scheduled, Mr. Netanyahu warned against “a peace based on illusions,” seemingly leaving the prospect for new talks as remote as they have been since the last major American push for speech collapsed last fall. Officials said there were no plans for formal negotiations or any mechanisms in place to push the two sides forward.
DENVER (NY Times) — In 2009, a burly Colorado man named Rick Duncan was a rising star among local veterans groups, advocating on behalf of struggling soldiers and holding forth about his own powerful experiences returning from Iraq as a wounded Marine. The problem was, none of it was true, not even his name. Duncan was actually Richard G. Strandlof, a troubled drifter who had never served in the military. Instead, he used his bogus story to work his way into the company of prominent politicians and admiring veterans. Strandlof was eventually arrested by the F.B.I. and charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act, a 2006 law that makes it a federal crime to lie about being a military hero. Strandlof has been fighting the case against him, arguing that the law violates his right to free speech. Simply telling a lie, his lawyers assert, does not always constitute a crime. Now, a federal appeals court in Denver is weighing whether the act is indeed unconstitutional.
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