Detroit Free Press

Sometimes in fairy tales, when the wicked witch wants to be really wicked, she makes her victim huge, monstrously ...

Ask the average American sports fan, "Who's contending for the NBA scoring title?" he'll probably say, "Kobe, Iverson and that guard from Detroit."Welcome to Jerry Stackhouse's world, where the sign could read, "Be careful what you wish for." Nearly every NBA player dreams of being "The Man." Some even ruin careers over it.Jerry Stackhouse actually got it. Grant Hill went away. No big names were signed. And Stackhouse became The Man on the Pistons the way Eminem became The Man for musical controversy, the way Dr. Phil became The Man for relationship rescues.

This is a story about taking pride in your work, whether it's saving children or cleaning toilets -- or, in Willie Davis' case, both.Willie Davis is a janitor. Oh, you can call him a custodian, or a caretaker, or a sanitation engineer. You can call him the King of England if you want, he still takes a broom every day and cleans the dirtiest corners of Arthur Smith Junior High School in Alexandria, La.And when he's done sweeping, he mops. And he waxes the floors. He does the windows. He mows the lawn. He plucks the weeds. When he has to, he cleans the toilets.

Aphone call away. No matter how far you go, no matter how desperate a leap you make from the ugly city asphalt to ...

To paraphrase the Robert Palmer song, might as well face it, we're addicted to Clinton.We will not let him go. We ...

Iremember the first moment I felt like a journalist. I was 22, and it was just before classes started at Columbia ...

IGREW an inch in college. That's not much. But it's still a change. It shows I wasn't a finished product when I arrived on campus -- not physically and certainly not emotionally.I remember that inch every year at this time, when newspapers -- including this one -- print the national "rankings" of college football recruiting classes.From top to bottom they are listed, celebrated, analyzed and re-analyzed. Who signed whom? Which school got the hottest studs? Who did the best shopping at the teenage supermarket?

This Tuesday, "Good Morning America" will offer you something different with your coffee. You can watch a baby ...