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When John Thompson III, coach of the Georgetown University men's basketball team, took over the moribund program there three years ago, a persistent question hovered over him, the way Patrick Ewing once loomed over point guards when Thompson's father, Hall of Famer John Thompson Jr., coached the Hoyas during their 1980s glory years. Could he really import the Princeton Offense, the precise, pass-happy basketball style that Thompson absorbed as both player and coach at the Ivy League school, to a team like Georgetown, which competes in the high-powered Big East conference? Consider the Hoyas' most notable...
...That whole line of questioning is baffling," insists Thompson III, 41, whose Hoyas mounted a bracket-saving comeback against North Carolina in the East Regional tourney to send Georgetown to its first Final Four in 22 years. "The perception - and it's an unfortunate perception - is that you go to the Big East and these guys can't, or won't, share the ball...
...members. “It’s a lot easier to talk with people who can relate to your type of experience. That’s a way of dealing with it, but also a way of moving beyond it,” says Charles J. Hamilton III ’07, the president of the Black Men’s Forum...
...lodge’s activities include charitable donations. The Harvard lodge donates to the Masonic Angel Fund and the Child Identification Program in Boston. Members also contribute through other means besides monetary donations: recent events included a blood drive at the Boston Masonic Temple. According to Robert E. Bolcome III, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School, Freemasons are the single largest source of blood donations in Massachusetts. “At least in my case I’ve been able to find a higher moral standard as a member...
...most senior member of the party,” Henry Morgenthau III, the scion of the Morgenthau clan that served as advisers to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, said as he approached Crimson reporters. It was not clear whether the 90-year-old was referring to the Democratic Party or to the evening’s gathering...