Word: looser
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...adjusted to the looser NBA environment. "At Duke, we wouldn't allow guys to wear a hat in a meeting,"he says. "But we're dealing with an 18-year-old - there's a discipline factor. If these guys wear a hat in a meeting, that's fine. Don't get bogged down with stupid things like that...
...like back-from-the-brink flair. Landis, an Armstrong domestique before a somewhat acrimonious split last year, had a social, not a medical, obstacle to contend with - his conservative Mennonite upbringing in Pennsylvania, where his parents eschewed television, dancing and especially Landis's bike habit. He's a little looser than Lance. "You'd want Lance to be your lawyer," says Vaughters. "You want Floyd to be your best friend...
...world at almost the same instant but have gone their own ways ever since--at least in terms of temperament. Alejandra has more of a tolerance--even a taste--for rules and regimens. Sofia observed this (and her parents observed her observing it) and then distinguished herself as the looser, less disciplined of the two. Sofia is also the more garrulous, and Alejandra eventually became the more taciturn. "Sofie served as their mouthpiece," says Lisa Dreyer, 39, the girls' mother, "and Alejandra was perfectly happy...
...changes in public relations under Summers have reduced his staff’s access to top administrators. Both Harvard Magazine and The Crimson are only allowed to interview Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C . Kirby with a press officer present—a departure from the looser rules of previous administrations. “It’s more difficult to have casual conversations than it used to be five years ago,” Rosenberg says.Crimson reporter Catherine Shoichet ’04, now a reporter for The St. Petersburg Times, remembers that the change...
...professors who have played key roles in the curricular review rose to say they were dissatisfied with the current proposal, which the Committee on General Education released last fall.Charles S. Maier ’60, the Saltonstall professor of history who served on that committee, said that the proposed looser distribution requirements should be reconsidered.“I, myself, after reflecting on this issue, am not comfortable with the final recommendations of the report that every department and every course should count for general education,” said Maier, a former Crimson editorial chair.But Maier also shied away...