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...town of Searchlight, 54 miles south of Las Vegas, in a tiny wood shack with a tin roof. He boarded with a family to attend high school in Henderson, 40 miles away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime's control of Vegas casinos and contended with threats as well as a bomb placed...
...that is why reporters hate to ask such questions. But in the world of amateur athletics, after all, this is true drama. This is how emotions are conveyed, how the athletes and non-athletes bridge the gap. What it required, though, was pain: a reopening of a predestined wound...
Telling the story of amateur athletes largely differs from the recounting of historical moments. Corbett’s rule of thumb is to treat players with respect, and to remember to “keep the student in front of the athlete...
...Fulbright scholarship, a Harvard undergraduate degree and a Harvard Ph.D., three decades of teaching at leading research universities and more awards and honors than you or I or Tom Hanks could imagine—this isn’t an amateur...
...most striking change is the influx of new creative voices and stylistic experiments. Children's theaters started in the 1930s as amateur community projects, mainly doing adaptations of fairy tales and classic kids' stories. More professional children's theaters started sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs...