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Only last week. Rob Sigal was moved from the j.V. to the varsity rower. Despite this handicap the boat turned in the fastest time in Harvard lightweight history for the 2000 meters...
...speaker for the masses," notes Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, a longtime observer of French politics. "He's not exactly the warmest person either." Even on television-where his confidence and lucidity come across best-Giscard cannot shake what many see as a handicap-a quasi-aristocratic background, suggested by the "d'Estaing" suffix borrowed from an extinct noble family. "Two centuries after the revolution, the French still don't like aristocrats," says a Paris banker...
...Else. However, owing mainly to the international investment deals he packages, Agnew is believed to have a hefty in come. He owns a condominium in a waterfront high-rise in Ocean City, Md., and a lavish home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he surfaces sporadically to trim his golf handicap...
When you're the best around, when you're the best in town, a little adversity isn't a handicap, it's a challenge to force your performance well beyond anything the competition can offer...
...black woman's training would pay off in the 1970s. With the arrival of integration, the black black woman would find, paradoxically enough, that her skin color in an integrated situation was not the handicap it had been in an all-black situation. But it wasn't until the middle and late 1960s, when the post-1945 generation of black males arrived hi college that I noticed any change in the situation at all. He wore an Afro and she wore an Afro, and some times the only way you could tell them apart was when his Afro...