Word: courtly
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Hill also won the 1999 Chip Hilton award, given annually to the Division I player who "best demonstrates personal character on and off the court." Previous recipients of the prestigious prize include San Antonio's Tim Duncan, who bagged it after the 1996-97 season...
Hill also won the 1999 Chip Hilton award, given annually to the Division I player who "best demonstrates personal character on and off the court." Previous recipients of the prestigious prize include San Antonio's Tim Duncan, who bagged it after the 1996-97 season...
...record labels, eager for a hot new sound, have started to court Latin pop stars. The death of Tejano star Selena in 1995 and the sales boom in her music that followed got many label suits thinking: If Selena can sell millions of CDs posthumously, how much money could we make with a Latin pop star who can still tour? Says Maria Zenoz, CEO of Caliente Entertainment, a New York City-based record company: "The untimely death of Selena caused the mainstream labels to take a look...
...year-old cousin Nathan is a sports fiend. On the basketball court or soccer field, he is a study in gravity-defying grace. He can cite volumes of baseball trivia and knows the rule book by heart. But like any kid his age, he is still learning how to play well with others. Nathan has struggled to accept losses without blaming his teammates or coaches or the officials, and to win without gloating...
...question of race, Nebraska legislators also voted to find out what socioeconomic factors distinguish the state?s 10 death row inmates from its 165 other murderers who were sentenced to prison instead. Opponents of the death penalty believe the loosening of many procedural safeguards by the U.S. Supreme Court over the years has increased the possibility of arbitrariness in decisions involving the death sentence. The fact that a middle-American state such as Nebraska could be on the verge of exploring these issues suggests that the nation at large could also soon be asking the same questions...