Word: manners
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...examining the most basic aspects of the case, the media has refocused the debate on racial issues, class issues, town-gown issues, and collegiate athletic issues. While all these factors may ultimately be important in this case, and are certainly pertinent to Raleigh-Durham and the nation, the manner in which the media has portrayed the case has allowed these secondary issues to overshadow the facts of the case. A recent New York Times article, for example, contained allegations that the members of the lacrosse team had been spotted at a local bar on a recent Saturday night (while vigils...
...movie does not attempt to solve this social disparity in a predictable, “My Fair Lady” rags-to-riches polished manner. At the final climactic competition, each student brings with him/her a little bit of his/her own urban style...
...help to reduce the potential for athletes to develop a sense of entitlement that comes with celebrity status. In an odd way, Harvard students’ general apathy toward our sports teams helps to avoid situations like the one currently plaguing Duke.The Duke situation is further exacerbated by all manner of race, class, and geographical issues. Durham has a very hostile relationship toward the university. Durham, the North Carolina home to Duke, is a diverse town with significant levels of poverty, further reinforcing the divide between privileged students and regular townspeople. Wealthier Cambridge, diverse though it may be, is much...
...seemed to me he personified the good traits that I associated with ‘Mainiacs’—directness, no nonsense,” said colleague and close friend Charles M. Williams. “And unlike the prototype, he had a gentleness of manner,” Williams, the Gund professor emeritus of finance and banking, said. Thurston was named the Chapman professor of business administration in 1979. From 1978 to 1981, he also served as a head of production and operations management for HBS. In the last decade of his career, Thurston joined the Executive...
...have a sense of pride because [founder] Mark Zuckerberg represented us in a respectable manner,” said Robert J. Ross ’09. Ross said that if the site changes ownership, “I don’t think that would prevent people already on Facebook from using...