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...government strong enough to pursue national purposes. But as Ellis sees it, Washington's views were also "projections onto the national screen of the need for the same kind of controlling authority he had orchestrated within his own personality." The Father of His Country had first to prevail as master of himself. --By Richard Lacayo
Jackson, Zen master of hoops, spent a lifetime preaching the virtues of we over I, of the need for players to achieve oneness and stifle their egos to win as a team. It's a philosophy with a strategy--the triangle offense, a system devised by his assistant Tex Winter. The triangle requires players to move in set patterns without the ball. It isn't designed for a single player; it rewards the guy who gets into the best position for a shot...
...Harvard Varsity Lightweights’ 2004-05 LP, or Lightweight Protocol, Kummer is the “lighter, but by no means lesser” equivalent of the heavies’ Master of Protocol, responsible for ensuring the team’s compliance with the ancient, yet arbitrary constitution of Newell Boathouse. In boathouse religion, he is the high priest; in boathouse justice, he is judge, jury and executioner; in the boathouse’s royal court, he is the honored jester...
...like to give a huge shout out to my roommates for putting up with all the commotion this week and also to [Eliot House Co-Master] Lino Pertile and [Assistant to the Co-Masters] Sue Weltman for letting the coach stay in the Matthiessen Room,” Davies said...
...reality that he is actually doing it at the highest level, in the world’s most prominent program—with an arguably imposing family precedent, as well—isn’t lost on anyone. He and fellow senior Malcolm Howard, Harvard’s master of protocol, only garner praise...