Word: career
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Michael Getman, a former assistant coach at Indiana University, has been named head coach of the Harvard men's soccer team. Getman succeeds Jape Shattuck, who left after the 1986 season to pursue a career in sports...
...baseball biography race came from Lenny Dykstra, a part-time centerfielder for The New York Mets. According to the Harper's index, the word "fuck" appears 160 times in the slim volume. That's a lot of profanity for a player with 127 hits in his career...
Bradley combines star quality from his basketball career with a reputation as a sober policy maven able to score points on complex issues like tax reform and international debt. Like Hart, he could occupy the "big think" niche while appealing to baby boomers. Cuomo, the old baseball player, hits oratorical home runs as he mixes traditional Democratic themes with odes to pragmatic governance. He has a following among Democratic ethnics in the North. Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is an acknowledged master of national security policy. His conservatism could win him bales of white votes...
...hindsight it is hard to believe that a lustrous political career could hang on such prosaic details. Moreover, the Herald's stakeout would have been infinitely more difficult at a later stage in the campaign, when Hart would have warranted Secret Service protection. In short, for want of a lookout a presidential campaign was lost. It ultimately made little difference that Hart told Herald reporters Saturday night, "I have no personal relationship with the woman you are following...
Paul Butterfield's sudden death last week marked a tragic end to a great blues career. While the Buddha was being video-taped, Danko and Butterfield were making hard-hitting, down-home music that was a little bit of honest sound on the new yuppie blues scene...