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...overwhelmingly middle and professional class: a handful of autoworkers, many more small-business owners, lots of doctors and, increasingly, university professors. There are very few poor among them. Since many arrived in the 1960s as students, says Professor John Esposito, head of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, "it's remarkable how fast they are making it up the ladder. And the next generation is expected to do better." They are social conservatives: more than 65% voted for George W. Bush. They are pro-gun control, pro-environment and pro-death penalty. They are proud of their...
...guys who are often much bigger than linebackers. Iverson, 26, a former Virginia high school-quarterback phenom, takes hits without fear. He's developed a jump shot that's excellent from 24 feet away and deadly at midrange. Then there's his speed. In his college days at Georgetown, sports photographers actually had to ditch their autofocus cameras in favor of more sensitive manual equipment--Iverson was showing up as only a blur...
Shaddup already! Being a proper Englishman, not to mention general manager of the posh Monarch Hotel in the Georgetown section of Washington, George Terpilowski would never think of using such language. But Terpilowski, and dozens of other service providers across the country, would dearly love...
...course, a little human kindness comes in short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness...
Apparently it's not so hard for Serena. "She's too competitive. That could be her weakness. She takes it to an extreme," says Venus. Isha Williams, a law student at Georgetown University and one of the five Williams sisters, nods her head. "Wow, Serena is really competitive. We used to think it was funny because she was too emotional. But I guess it's not funny anymore." Even Serena admits it's a problem off the court. "It's not fun because no one wants to golf with me," she says...