Word: duking
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...DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Lauren attended business classes but paid little attention to studies. His adolescent idols were British and American style setters: the Duke of Windsor, for example, and Katharine Hepburn, who stole the show in The Philadelphia Story with her pants-and-pearls look. Lauren's early fashion education was basically a home- study course that he recalls being a "combination of movies and reading Esquire." Says he: "Whether that world exists or not, I don't know. I saw things as they should have been, not as they were...
Some athletes apparently turn to drugs as a way of coping with the stress of the sporting life. "There is tremendous psychological pressure on athletes," says John Weistart, a law professor at Duke and co-author of The Law of Sports. "They are surrounded by people boosting their egos and telling them they're invulnerable to the ordinary pressures that we all face. An athlete has to deal with the disjunction between the outside world, which says he's exceptional, and what he feels inside, which is he's just as human as the rest...
...critics of collegiate drug testing believe such programs do discriminate against athletes. "Somehow, I find it degrading," says Georgetown's athletics director, Frank Rienzo. "Should there be a distinction as to who should be tested and who should not be?" Argues Duke Law Professor Weistart: "Colleges could never get away with testing the entire student body. But because there is no single party representing student athletes, the N.C.A.A. can ride roughshod over their civil liberties. It's a patent invasion of privacy...
Football management and coaches are all for a stricter testing program. "Something has to be done," argues Sam Wyche, head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. "Let's use a little common sense. People are dying around us." Weistart, the Duke professor who criticizes drug tests for college players, feels that they are appropriate for professionals. "Pro sports is a commercial transaction involving huge amounts of money for both physical performance and public image," says he. "Owners have a right to insist on a fair exchange...
...conservation group were on her birthday-week itinerary. So was an appearance on the porch of Clarence House, her London residence, with her daughters, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and two of her grandsons, accompanied by their wives (Prince Charles with the Princess of Wales and the new Duke and Duchess of York). Then "the Waleses" were off to the Mediterranean island of Majorca for a private vacation visit with "the Spains," King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. They were met at the airport by a royal entourage, including exiled King Constantine of Greece, who drove them through town...