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...Elsewhere on Thursday… — Financial conditions are tight, but maybe easing (Apricitas Economics) — Palo Alto’s first tech giant was a horse farm (The Atlantic) — How LeBron James outscored Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
...Top writers on Substack include Anne Helen Petersen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Moore....
...Among them were the basketball stars Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). They succeeded in stiffening the boxer’s spine, if, indeed, it ever needed stiffening....
...But Martin should also make time one day to look at the career of the poetry-writing fellow professional basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, now 75....
...Even in old age, assembled before a stage of fellow Hall of Famers in 2017, he had a message for the likes of Kobe Bryant, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and others coming for his GOAT mantle. Watch it here....
...I was taken to see the Bucks by the friend who gave me the Abdul-Jabbar hat, and I realised how much I like the camaraderie of being invested in a team....
...Iraq’s oil minister, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, said in July that BP was also considering withdrawing from Iraq, where political instability, security risks and corruption continue to complicate operations....
...Paul then went on to name — co-opting them to the cause — previous luminaries of sport who had some emancipatory role: “Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
...Iraqi-born Rand Abdul Jabbar, who is based in Abu Dhabi, holds a different view. “Being a woman has never affected my identity as a designer. The UAE is somewhere where women can thrive,” she says....
...Rand Abdul Jabbar was born in Baghdad and studied in the US, but she grew up in Dubai. Her Forma collection — a limited-edition chair and table — is inspired by the dhow, the traditional Emirati boat....
...” said Col Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, commander of the Revolutionary Military Council of Aleppo province, which oversees the forces of the rebel Free Syrian Army....
...“Even with the little we have we have managed to fight the regime,” says Col Abdul Jabbar Al-Oqaidi, commander and spokesman of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo province....
...Stars such as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar swept all before them in the team’s so-called “Showtime” era of the 1980s – as did Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal more than a decade later....
...“The operation will continue until we control the airport and Nairab,” Colonel Abdul-Jabbar al-Aqidi, local rebel military council head, told the pan-Arab TV channel Al-Arabiya....
...As Colonel Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, the head of the Aleppo military revolutionary council, told me a few days ago from one of his bases near Syria’s border with Turkey, the hotel rebels “live outside the reality...
...“Qatar and Saudi Arabia … are playing out their rivalries here, they are dividing people,” says Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, the head of the Aleppo revolutionary military council....
...Abdul-Jabbar Mohammed Aqidi, who is believed to command rebel forces inside Aleppo, announced that the battle for Syria’s largest city had begun....
...With winning performances from stars including Mr Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, celebrities such as Jack Nicholson watching courtside and the glamour of the Laker Girls cheerleading squad, the team became...
...Jabbar Yaseen contributed to this article. This article appears by agreement with the Washington Post...
...In his autobiography, Abdul-Jabbar, almost as square as his coach, remembers first meeting the man who recruited him from far away New York in Wooden’s closet-sized office....
...Abdul Jabbar Khan chokes up when he walks underneath the steel pipework and corroding tanks of the Union Carbide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal....
...is the appeal of TED, which is routinely described as a cross between Glastonbury and Davos, that it even attracts improbable celebrities: actresses Cameron Diaz and Meg Ryan and basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
...The latest senior oil official to be kidnapped was Abdul Jabbar al-Wagga, a deputy minister and the highest ranking Sunni at the ministry....
...John Wooden, who led UCLA to 10 titles in 12 years, including seven in a row, is shoulder-to-shoulder with Abdul-Jabbar and Bird....
...Ali Abdul Jabbar, proprietor of the al-Ubaidi electronics store, introduced the instalment scheme about three months ago....
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