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...schools fight to improve? The basic reason was pride, which was evoked by strong leadership. The resurgence was often crystallized around an outspoken and energetic principal who galvanized students, parents and community. Reports Meade: "In some cases the motivation was as simple as, 'We were known as the lousiest school in town, and we don't want to be the lousiest school...
Wildcat Coach Jean Rilling hoped her team would break out of its scoring slump, a problem that has plagued UNH all season. The team Rilling calls "my scoreless wonders" has tallied but twice in their first six outings. "This is the lousiest I've seen them play this year," Rilling said, adding that in her halftime talk she threatened to walk off the field if her team's play failed to improve...
...grand jury finished its investigation. It refused to indict Hanna for manslaughter, and dropped all charges against him and the other officer involved in the killing. The district attorney called the grand jury probe "full, complete and very thorough." United League president Robinson called it "one of the lousiest investigations that has ever taken place in the state of Mississippi...
...Neill met and for a while became friends with another poker player of repute-Richard Nixon, then the Vice President. But for all Nixon's reputation -he had won a bundle in the Navy during the war-O'Neill found him lacking. "Nixon was one of the lousiest players I ever played with," Tip remembers. "He didn't follow the cards. He talked too much. But he was an affable and likable guy in that friendly atmosphere, and the other players were nice to him because he was Vice President...
...connoisseur of urban living. "The American city is like a beguiling woman," he says with gusto. "Each woman has her own attributes, and each man, thank God, can make a choice." Weaver raves about such cities as New York ("You can get the best cheap meal and the lousiest expensive meal in the country"), Chicago ("Such terrific oomph") and San Francisco ("I can walk with pleasure"). But it will take more than love to save the cities. Weaver is under no illusion that the challenges that are now his will be met "in my lifetime-certainly not in my span...