Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't know how to describe it. He wasn't used to crowds of reporters standing around him, television cameras flashing lights in his eyes. He had never been a big goal-scorer...
Kelly's friends know him for his French-fries frenzies and chili-dog cravings. But beware of stereotypes. A Redskins cap planted on his head, the designer can also be found at his favorite restaurant, L'Ambroisie, over a $150 lunch of scallops and Sauterne, waxing eloquent on the merits of white vs. black truffles. Anyone who refers to Kelly's origins as "poor black" is quickly set straight with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white...
Wayne Embry, general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is a black former pro who knows the problem well: "Quite often, coming out of school, these kids don't know anything else but basketball. Someone's altered their test scores to get them into school, and once they're in, they're directed to take basket weaving and plays-and-games, or whatever the hell it is. Tell me what they're going to do in our society. I know quite often college coaches think they're doing these kids a favor. The reality is they're doing them a disservice...
...last time he saw his father, and his mother had two failing kidneys. The family lived on her Social Security and disability checks. Lafester was excited and confused by the swarming recruiters (he still keeps their letters in a Nike shoe box under his bed). "I didn't really know what was happening," he says. "I didn't have a father to guide me, so I decided...
...First, we do not know their location. Second, we don't know who the kidnapers are. Any miscalculation in approaching this matter may result in the death of hostages rather than in saving their lives. In the past, a number of our soldiers were killed in attempts to find the hostages, but despite that we could not find them. A number of hostages have been released with our help, but we could not help all of them. We hope in the future our efforts will help all of them as it has helped those in the past...