Word: hoya
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...rabid Hoya fans affectionately call Thompson, struggled with his decision to take the Georgetown job in 2004. He loved his alma mater, and most members of the '04 Tigers, fresh off a league title, were returning. It wasn't certain that Georgetown could compete against the bulked-up budgets of the Big East. Even today Georgetown's hoop team fights the volleyball squad for practice time at the school's campus...
...Hall of Famer John Jr. isn't the only looming legend. Hall of Famer Carril, 76, has been carefully following his basketball progeny's stunning three-year turnaround at Georgetown. And though Carril calls JT3's Hoya players "darn levelheaded Joes," they admit to not immediately buying into a system that demands total team discipline. "When you're coming from high school and you're the superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton...
...that “trying to catch [plagiarism] mechanically through websites like TurnItIn.com is demeaning to everyone involved.” “We should see plagiarism as a signal of the overall health of academia and act to solve the problem fundamentally,” he added.A HOYA HURRAHOn the other hand, the student-faculty Honor Council at Georgetown University, which has been using TurnItIn on a trial basis since the spring semester of 2002, gives a thumbs up to the software.The graduate assistant to the Honor Council, Kyle Stedman, described the program...
Puma found success with such star athletes as Joe Namath and soccer king Pel, who led the brand to superstardom in major arenas. Athletes such as Walt Frazier, Oscar de la Hoya, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams followed suit, and Puma further revolutionized the category with the introduction of Velcro fasteners. Not content to stay in the stadium, Puma branched out, marrying sports with fashion in 1998 with a collection of Jil Sander--designed sneakers. Lines for Christy Turlington's Nuala brand followed, as did Evisu's True Love Never Dies jeans and collaborations with Philippe Starck and Alexander McQueen...
...Next Great Champ," a boxing reality show, starring Oscar de la Hoya, that will beat NBC's "The Contender," slated for January, to the - no, it's too easy...