Word: neale
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...candidly assesses, both in interview and autobiography, his public displays as well as his private dysfunction. He says that putting the book together helped him to learn from some of his difficult past, such as the breakup of his rocky, drug-addled marriage to Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal, which he calls "a real failing." Last week, he described relations with his ex as "very strained," diplomatic words given that she told Britain's Daily Mail days before that he was a "sociopath." His second marriage, to singer Patty Smyth, has been more successful. Smyth gives her husband...
...them is the Sacramento Kings, whose up-tempo team game, run by the Kidd-like guard Mike Bibby, put them into Game 7 with the star-driven Lakers of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. Either of these Western teams seems to have too much talent for the Nets to handle. Yet Kidd knows it will take a championship ring to satisfy his critics, who have been expecting big things from him since he was a high school phenom in the Bay Area. "The shoe fits perfectly for us," he says. "We're the underdogs. We've been put down...
...Cathy Neal, an undergraduate involved in Swarthmore’s living wage campaign, cites as one example how student activists and council members worked together to support a policy that would allow students who are caught using drugs to continue to receive financial...
These activities bring the resume of Thomas Neal Billings up to date—a resume filled with occupations and pastimes. He recalls the complicated chronology of his past 50 years easily and cheerfully offers his daughter’s appraisal of a life filled with frenetic activity...
...Then there's the simple matter of winning - the NBA has learned, like Major League Baseball did decades ago, that there's no place too distant to scout for talent. Wednesday a phalanx of NBA executives, desperate to find someone - anyone - to match up with Shaquille O'Neal, gathered at a small gymnasium in Chicago to evaluate another young 7-footer with surprising agility and a soft touch - 7' 5" Chinese national treasure Yao Ming, whose long-anticipated journey to the NBA has been complicated by, among other things, the China-U.S. spy-plane standoff in 2001. (Thus does...