Word: garnette
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When Kyle Snowden was a freshman beginning his career for the Harvard men's basketball team, Stephon Marbury and Kevin Garnett were starting their junior year in high school. Allen Iverson was serving his ill-deserved prison term...
...Kevin Garnett, 20. Who needs college? Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves straight out of high school--Farragut Academy in Chicago--the 6-ft. 11-in. power forward averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds in his 43 postapprenticeship-on-the-bench starts. He also made it a little easier for Kobe Bryant and Jermaine O'Neal to make the jump from high school to the N.B.A. this year. Somewhere along the line, Garnett acquired a taste for literature. His favorite book, he says, is The Great Gatsby. As we said, who needs college...
BORN: Sept. 12, 1956, Garnett EDUCATION: Kansas State U, B.S., 1979; U of Kansas, J.D., 1982 FAMILY: Wife, Mary; three children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; lawyer; White House aide; broadcaster POLITICAL CAREER: Kansas Secretary of Agriculture, 1986-90, 1991-93; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2008, Topeka...
...buildup of forces was halted, and local commanders had to go in with whatever units they could cobble together. Some were only at half-strength, and others were Interior Ministry troops, a kind of national guard used for internal security. "There was no joint training," says Sherman Garnett, a former head of Russian affairs at the Pentagon in Washington, "and the command was divided...
...Boston, boutiques and basements alike offer a broad spectrum of apparel to a diverse market. But Bob Garnett, the founder of Strutter's, sees a clear distinction between the recycled clothing sold in the vast rooms of The Garment District, and the vintage clothing displayed in Newbury Street shop windows. "I consider vintage clothing to be clothes made in the 1940's and maybe 1950's. The jeans and the flannels and everything that is really popular today is just recycled clothing...it depends on how and when it was made," explains Garnett...