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Both of them, along with the rest of a team that lost control when it was down, blew it. In the face of defeat, they acted not as gracious sports or even as proud, defiant adversaries, but as embittered cheap-shot artists, interested only in trading their tears for a little Bright Crimson blood...
...track record so far can prove anything, Jewett will continue to be the most gracious of hosts. Let's just hope that at the end of the four-year party, none of us will drive home drunk...
...winners were gracious and self-assured invictory, as befits a national powerhouse."Harvard--you know we're just a lot better thanthem and should win," Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewskisaid. "Overall they played very well. Theycertainly were not intimidated. They took the ballright at us and hit a couple of times...
American business leaders have been urged to toughen up, to partake of power breakfasts, to dress only for success. Now along comes Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners (Rawson Associates; $22.95) telling them to be polite. Good manners constitute good business, Baldrige argues. Her model executive is gracious and considerate. When he fires a subordinate, he breaks the news compassionately; when he loses a job, he leaves the firm quickly and quietly. He exhibits an old-fashioned virtue: good manners...
What was most remarkable about the party changes was the gracious and peaceable manner in which they were carried out. There were no outright purges, no summary arrests, no instances of personal humiliation, as in Mao's time. The old-timers went quietly, praised for their work and assured that most of them would become "advisers," with the same pay and perks as before, including access to housing, cars and political documents. According to some reports, they may also have received promises that their sons or daughters would receive future party appointments. Moreover, even as veteran military leaders stepped down...