Word: gentlemanly
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Indiana University's stunning decision to fire Bobby Knight presents Harvard with an historic opportunity to revitalize its Athletic Department--by hiring him as the men's basketball coach. Though current head coach Frank Sullivan has conducted himself as a perfect Ivy League gentleman and vastly improved the team during his tenure, Knight can bring Harvard to a new level. The simple, sad fact is that the Crimson has never won an Ivy League championship, consistently falling victim to the triumvirate of Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton...
...American and a woman. It seems fitting that Williams won this award at the Arthur Ashe Stadium, named after the first black man to win a major tennis title. But Williams encompasses a different model than that of the late Arthur Ashe himself. We remember Ashe as the perfect gentleman, molded to the etiquette of his day and sport. We view Williams, however, as an athlete and a woman pushing to the extremes of her physical and mental strength through personal expression and dedication...
...Republican convention, Bush had the race won on style, personality and guy points. But Gore brilliantly used Los Angeles (the family, Karenna's sweet speech, bouncy Tipper, and above all The Kiss) to neutralize the Something's-Wrong-With-Gore problem. W.'s loose Texas normality and gentleman's C in gravitas is no longer sufficient. Gore isn't prohibitively weird anymore to independents, but seems, on the contrary, to be likeable, presentable, acceptable. Los Angeles all but destroyed Bush's atmospheric advantage...
...point in the evening he lent a sympathetic hand basically solidifying the fact that he was a gentleman...
...intrigued by this story and did a little research in the name of duped women everywhere. It's really unbelievable -after figuring out what time we paid our tabs (both on credit cards), where we sat (exactly), and what we all drank, she called me back to say the gentleman we're speaking of used a credit card WITH NO NAME ON IT! She said the signature is pretty illegible but it looked vaguely like DELETED (LM) with a dollar sign next to it. She said it could've just been scribble, but there was definitely no credit card with...