Word: dame
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McLaughlin also calls the admissions committee "very fair and helpful." The former Notre Dame assistant coach says some highly-touted candidates do not even want to bother filling out an application or financial aid form. "We have to go out and get those kids--every school in the country wants to be good at basketball...
When Alice Roosevelt Longworth died last week at 96, Washington remembered her as a woman of great charm and elegance. It remembered her glittering marriage to House Speaker Nicholas Longworth and her years as the capital's reigning grande dame. But most of all it remembered the malicious wit that prompted her to keep in her upstairs sitting room a pillow embroidered with the message, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...
...life," he said this week, recalling that he had attended the tournament every year with his family "as far back as I can remember." Recruited heavily by local colleges and lured with free Beanpot tickets ("the seats got better and better"), Burke nonetheless decided to go to Notre Dame, which he "really dug." In fact, he had already completed the initial acceptance...
After receiving All-State honors as goalie of the St. Paul Johnson high school team, Lau was heavily recrutied by Notre Dame and the Ivy League schools. Although at the time going to Harvard was "the farthest thing from my mind," Lau was impressed with the school and decided to try to be a student-athlete...
After getting degrees from Notre Dame and Georgetown University Law Center, the New York-born Sears joined Richard Nixon's Manhattan law firm in 1965. He soon impressed Nixon with his political instincts and was enlisted in the campaign. After Nixon won the presidency, Sears fell out of favor with the White House staff because he retained close ties with people outside Nixon's inner circle -and was even wiretapped as a suspected source of press leaks. He now feels some regret over his role in helping Nixon win. During the 1976 campaign, Sears' tendency to drink...