Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the balloting was done prior to theFinal Four, any lingering doubts as to MacDonald'sselection were erased by his tournamentperformance...
...fashion capital -- where others have tried and failed -- would be a two-time college dropout who once slept in Atlanta restaurants when he had no home, collected rejection slips on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and was evicted from his Harlem apartment for not paying rent. "What Patrick has done, no one else has done," says Audrey Smaltz, a New York City fashion-show producer. Since July 1987, when Kelly signed a licensing contract with the $600 million conglomerate Warnaco, his business has shot up from $795,000 a year to $7 million a year. "Behind all of Kelly's Folies...
Trouble was, the athletic department had enrolled Brian in the business college, although he had no interest in the subject. "I was kind of ignorant," he admits. "I thought this was the way it was done. I had no idea I could be in charge of making my own course decisions." Brian hated business. His average dipped below 2.0. After his sophomore year, he asked to study communications, but by then his grades were too low for him to transfer. Instead, one of the coaches walked him over to the physical-education department, which had agreed to take him. There...
...night of Dec. 19, 1987, Lafester Rhodes did what no one in Iowa State history had done before. He scored 54 points in a single game, razor-edging rival University of Iowa 102-100. No one who saw that game will ever forget Lafester Rhodes. But these days he doesn't feel like much of a champion...
...university presidents defend the system, but many of them feel it is not beyond repair. "All we have to do is find the wit and will to get it done," says University of Miami President Edward Foote. In recent months, coaches and school administrators have debated the NCAA's Proposition 42, a plan that would raise the eligibility standards for athletic scholarships. Both sides of the argument claimed to speak for the disadvantaged. Some who opposed higher standardized-test scores tried to limit debate by labeling as racist or elitist those who favored such a change. But the focus...