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Clark gained national attention -- including a TIME cover -- by bullying students and faculty into a state of moral grace and academic excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict...
...sport of grace anymore. It is a more active and demanding sport," Harvard's coach says...
...indeed, although seniors Morrissey, Liz Reynolds, Martha Berkman--the number-nine seed who went undefeated this year--and Louise Zonis will depart, a strong line of successors follows. Freshmen Brooke Bailey and Mary Greenhill, sophomore Daphne Onderdonk and junior Grace Sheffield will return to comprise that "strong nucleus" on the squash ladder...
...brief second, there is silence in the room. Memories of FloJo praying on the track, her performance in the Olympics, her grace and her character appear...
...UCLA, the rules were changed expressly to thwart him. Dunking, jamming the ball into the basket from above, was temporarily outlawed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Still, with a sullen grace and dispassionate touch, he showed UCLA to 88 wins in 90 games and three national titles. He was the NBA's first draft choice...