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...some weekends, when the rest of Washington is on the back nine or a racquetball court, Arne Duncan (whose first name is pronounced Are-knee) can be found playing in three-on-three street-ball tournaments across the nation. On a muggy, overcast Saturday in late July, while 50 Cent's "I Get Money" blares from a set of speakers, the former head of the Chicago Public Schools pounds the blacktop, alternating between playing intensely and walking off to take calls on his BlackBerry. Almost none of the other ballers know who the white dude with the salt-and-pepper...
Duncan, 44, is no stranger to occasional discomfort. He grew up in Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago...
Philandering spouses across France have been frantically pounding the Delete button on their phones this summer, after the country's highest appeals court ruled that steamy text messages are admissible as evidence in divorce cases. The judgment overturned a lower court's refusal to consider "Dear Pookie" messages as proof of a man's unfaithfulness because--are you sitting down for this, ladies?--doing so would have violated his right to privacy. The appellate court ruled that the texts could be used since they were not "obtained by violence or fraud." (The wife found them on a phone her husband...
Plans, however, changed quickly. Just two weeks after arriving in Cambridge, Evans suffered a torn ACL that will keep her off the court for the year...
...true team bonding experience, despite the fact it was an individual competition.“There was an individual, but team mindset,” Green said. “The girls were able to bond and get more familiar with each other, while showing their stuff on the court.”Though the spring season is months away, this past weekend’s performance by Cao and Tachibana is a good sign for the future of Harvard women’s tennis...