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Skillfully managed, gracious and well spoken, Thorpe has been embraced by a public disturbed by the antics of sportsmen such as local tennis brat Lleyton Hewitt. Thorpe's impact on Australian youth has been compared with the Tiger Woods phenomenon in golf. "He's become a similar figure of hope, an ultimate role model," argues 1988 Olympic 200-m champion Duncan Armstrong. Thorpe has been a cover boy on magazines ranging from the frivolous to the prestigious, and many Australians feel they know a lot about him?from his shoe size (17) to his taste in music (grunge...
...even better person." O.K., so Tiger is Steinberg's meal ticket. But even those who have nothing invested in Woods find it hard not to be effusive. "He is a tremendously well-balanced young man," says South African veteran Gary Player, 64. "He is a gracious loser. He dresses well. He speaks well. He will be a great influence on generations of people throughout the world...
...personality, drawn much more, they all say, from his mom than his dad. "I'm quick with the quip," he says now. "Dad gives me advice when I ask him for it, my mom when I don't. She can be blunt, like me. My dad's always gracious." But you can also make the case that if his father didn't exactly have a normal childhood, neither did W. The death of his three-year-old sister Robin in 1953, when he was seven, has been seen as one source of his breezy manner; when sorrow settled over...
BUSH: Yes, I'm more like my mom sometimes. I'm quick with a quip. Dad gives me advice when I ask him for it, my mom when I don't. She can be blunt, like me. She says what she wants. My dad's always gracious...
...armor against frivolous speculation. If this guy weathered three heart attacks, the press corps may be musing, he's got to be tough. It's possible, of course, that the official announcement of the Bush-Cheney ticket will open the floodgates of media conjecture and herald a generally less gracious treatment of the nation's newest candidate...