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...three-encore performance of his touring Irish-dance spectacular Lord of the Dance--is to know you are in the presence of someone for whom the gift of a Tony Robbins seminar would be as superfluous as a swimming lesson for Mark Spitz. Flatley knows well how to assert himself. When he isn't dancing, he is swaggering; when he isn't in stage sequins, he is wearing leather, diamonds and enough cologne to deodorize a landfill in July. At 38 and a compact 5 ft. 9 in., he resembles a cross between Mikhail Baryshnikov and Michael Bolton. He tends...
Prosecutor Christopher Darden's article on the role color played in the Simpson trial was very moving. He summarized what American society is about: race. It was courageous of Darden to assert that the justice system in the U.S. is a farce. Two innocent people were murdered. Why is O.J. so different? Because he has thrown a football and appeared on TV and in movies? No, it is because the case was about black and white. I am proud that I am Canadian. Here, we believe in punishing those who are guilty, and our juries make decisions based on justice...
Likewise, second team All-Ivy selection Black must assert herself down low. If Feaster and Black take the ball up strong in the paint, you might get the Tar Heels into some early foul trouble...
...gift was refused because it was to be used to enshrine the study of business management in a majestic new school destined, as Oxford administrators assert, to become a major center for management research in Europe. The Daily Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper, quickly decried the decision as based on an elitist bias described as "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty...
...rest of Harvard has spent the winter bundled up in dormitories, the men's and women's tennis teams have been tuning up for the crucial dual-match spring season by participating in numerous tournaments. As a result, they are poised and ready to conquer the Ivy League, assert themselves as the dominant team in the Northeast, and get to the big dance--the NCAAs...