PRESIDENT CLINTON COMMENTS ON RODMAN'S "HEART OF HEARTS"

          President Clinton yesterday gave "his presidential seal
     of disapproval on [Dennis] Rodman's latest wayward act,"
     according to Bob Verdi in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.  Clinton: 
     "I'm sure in his heart of hearts he regrets doing that ...
     "There's lots of little kids out there, and they have to be
     fascinated by him.  So I hope he'll find a way to say,
     'That's something I shouldn't have done,' I'm not going to
     do that anymore.'"  Verdi: "Rodman is only an athlete/
     entertainer and the more we try to jam his square-painted
     head into the round hole of a role model, the more
     hysterical this episode becomes" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 1/24). In
     N.Y., Phil Mushnick writes that "Rodman, of all people, has
     it right.  He says he doesn't need psychological counseling. 
     What for?  For being an astute businessman?  For promoting
     his bad-boy image just as the NBA, under [NBA Commissioner
     David] Stern, marketed Rodman's cheapshot Piston teams as
     the Bad Boys?" (N.Y. POST, 1/24).