Word: cooperized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much has changed in tennis in half a century. And some things haven't. What's the biggest change? Power. As a guest at last year's Wimbledon Championships, Ashley Cooper noted the path of the men's serves from his premium seat. When an ace was delivered down the middle of the court, he says, the ball would still be climbing when it crashed into the backboard. "In my time," he says, "a serve that reached the backboard on the first bounce would draw a gasp from the crowd." The biggest server in Cooper's day was the American...
...Still, in a complex event with lots of witnesses, there will always be an anomalous bit of evidence - someone whose recollection differs from the mainstream, or physical evidence that can be inserted into the jigsaw in a new way. "Some people need conspiracy theories," says Cary Cooper, a professor of psychology and health at Lancaster University. The loved one of someone who dies may find it easier to bear if the death can be viewed as something other than a random tragic accident. That may explain Mohammed al Fayed's total conviction that his son was murdered. He called...
...sense of loss may be at work among those who never met her. "Some people have a predisposition to believe in conspiracies. They' re people who need structure, who want there to be an order in the world, who can't believe that unhappy events can just occur," says Cooper...
...Being convinced that a conspiracy of elites killed Diana, the People's Princess, just fits into the zeitgeist. Says Cooper: "Your successor, and your successor's successor, is going to be writing about Diana conspiracy theories...
...Alwa A. Cooper ’08 Associate Editor...