Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rooting for Yale has a distinctly subversive flavor here, and that's part of its appeal. I like rooting for Yale. It is perpetually that second-or third-best alternative, that underdog (no pun intended) school with just the right amount of respectability with a difference...
Walsh was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday, but remains free pending appeal...
Walsh vowed to fight on, both to regain his council seat and to prove his innocence in an appeal...
Walsh also said he would be eligible to run for re-election next year, regardless of the status of his appeal, because the statute only applies to the current term...
...that they lose self-respect and likely become resentful of the system that encouraged them. Certainly any program that provides an alternative to the streets is better than nothing, but ideally an inner-city youth program wouldn't rely on the lore of the American basketball star for its appeal...