Word: hooverness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rumors of ESPN coming to the game began swirling around Harvard’s athletic department early last week after Ivy League sports information director Bret Hoover contacted ESPN inviting the show to the game...
...Monday ESPN told me it was unlikely. On Tuesday they said we were on the radar,” Hoover said. “But Wednesday ESPN told me that if both Harvard and Penn won they would be in Pennsylvania on the 16th of November...
That afternoon, ESPN made its final decision—they called Hoover from their set-up at the Tennessee-Miami game to deliver the confirmation...
...book presents a rich cast of characters. Here's industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1889 calling the accumulation of wealth "one of the worst species of idolatry" and hilariously praising the virtues of "honest poverty." Here's Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, arguing that when initiative is crippled by high taxes, an individual "will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends." This might have been written yesterday...
Among cops and other law enforcers, there are sharp divisions too. Some, like Joseph D. McNamara, a former San Jose police chief and now a Hoover Institution fellow, call for an end to the criminalization of marijuana. "Most of the police officers I hired during the 15 years I was police chief had tried it," says McNamara. Like many pot legalizers, he believes the system, which he says arrests more people for marijuana than for any other drug, is racist. "Ninety million Americans have tried marijuana. When you look at who's going to jail, it is overwhelmingly disproportionate...