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...Kent Lucas spent the first three years of his collegiate football career struggling to overcome obstacles on the football field, obstacles usually in the form of 220-lb. defensive linemen...
...beginning of the season, it was like a joke," said Captain Kevin Dulsky, who often went head-to-head with Lucas in practice. "The linemen couldn't wait to go against Kent. But he worked really hard at it, and by the end of the season, he was really tough to handle...
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the meeting was the presence of Kent Hance, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in that beleaguered state. While Hance, 45, had no mandate or inclination to negotiate production cuts on the part of Texas or the U.S., he went to the meeting to "share our experience ((and)) give them our insight on how prices could be stabilized." Texans, who have felt neglected by the rest of the U.S. in recent years, sometimes like to point out that if their state were a member of OPEC, it would rank...
...special soft spot for him because he had said that Cry, the Beloved < Country was the only Christian novel that he was ever able to read. I heard him again in 1955, at the Jubilee of Kent School, Connecticut. He had had a stroke, and delivered his paper sitting down, hiding his powerless left hand under his right. His audience was deeply affected, for they were witnessing a triumph of mind (or soul) over matter. And the mind was as clear as ever...
...John Yoo, I can see them now, the good ole days when activists were really committed, when things really got done. When protest got 4 people murdered by the National Guard at Kent State. When during the takeover of University Hall in 1969, "(i)n the reception room of Dean Glimp's office, a girl stood with blood trickling down from a cut in the center of her forehead. A state trooper stepped up...and steadied her chin with his thumb. The tenderness of this grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over...