Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bob Fuller, PINETOP, ARIZ...
Everbody loves Bob Barker -- everyone, let's say, except the occasional litigious ex--Barker's Beauty or unwillingly neutered collie. And everybody respects Bob Barker. Since he announced his retirement from The Price Is Right (he tapes his last show June 6), the plaudits have rolled in: he has been called a legend, an institution, a record-setting...
...Being Africa's premier diva is not a crown that Kidjo wears lightly. As an African, she says, she comes from a place with problems. But as a musician, she argues, she can solve them. Kidjo first came to prominence in the 1980s, a time when Bob Geldof was fashioning Live Aid around the idea that music could be charity. Kidjo had an even more ambitious idea, which drew on her voodoo roots in the old African slave port of Cotonou, Benin, where she grew up: music is "the ultimate power," she explains over lunch in Paris, her adopted home...
...many teachers are torn when it comes to Turnitin. "How do you reconcile this [service] with a place that's trying to presume honor?" asks Bob Thompson, Duke University's vice provost for undergraduate education. Duke, which recently endured a cheating scandal at its business school, no longer uses Turnitin--in part because it did not like adding to the company's database--and this spring expanded its honor code by obligating students to take action if they observe or hear about cheating. "We will truly lose the battle if we think we're going to fight technology with technology...
...call a tech on Houston Rockets forward Juwan Howard in Game 6 of the Rockets-Jazz series. This call was particularly confounding since Utah's Mehmet Okur, not Howard, had instigated a mini-scuffle after the Houston forward committed a tough, but not intentional, foul. Last weekend, referee Bob Delaney went so far as to call a technical on Phoenix Suns assistant coach Mark Iavaroni at midcourt during halftime. And even before the playoffs, longtime ref Joey Crawford grabbed headlines when he kicked the league's stoic superstar, Tim Duncan, out of a game for laughing on the bench after...