Word: gilbert
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...Gilbert Arenas, wonder guard of the Washington Wizards, goes by a superhero nickname, Agent Zero, as in the number on his uniform. Here's a more appropriate appellation: Agent Weirdo. Why? This is a guy who at halftime of one game took a shower--fully uniformed--to cool down. He tickles the underarm of a teammate before tip-off for good luck. His addictions are many and, Arenas admits, "pointless," including bad DVDs, vintage jerseys and his latest, crappy basketballs. Arenas is collecting the synthetic balls the NBA unveiled and dumped this season after players complained about cutting their fingers...
...impossible" tag fits Arenas like one of his kicks. His mother abandoned Arenas in a Miami housing project when he was almost 4. His father, then living in Tampa, retrieved him. Three years later, Gilbert Sr. drove with his son cross-country to chase an acting career in Los Angeles. The Gilberts were out of money on arrival. "I'm thinking, that's not cool," Gilbert Sr. remembers. For three days, they slept in Dad's Mazda RX-7. Arenas Sr. soon found steady work, although he never struck it big as an actor...
...dramatic scene unfolded four years ago, during Arenas' second season. As the Washington Post first reported, while Arenas was warming up for his former club, the Golden State Warriors, a woman shouted at him from the stands in Miami. "Gilbert! I'm your mom!" she declared. Arenas froze. After the game, Mary Francis Robinson gave him her phone number. He still hasn't called. "I used to look in the mirror, and all I wanted from God was to one day meet her," Arenas says. "He gave me that wish. That...
...cost cutting on blue-collar workers while preserving such executive perquisites as private dining rooms and chauffeur-driven limousines. Chairman Smith fired back with some broadsides of his own. Perot's office, he complained to the Detroit Free Press, "makes mine look like a shanty-town. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging on the wall." Said Smith: "[Perot] is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is very independent. He is the type of guy that would saddle up his horse and ride to Iran to rescue people...
...Gilbert and Buckner are professors of psychology at Harvard. Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness was published last...