Word: passionate
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Barack Obama has never hidden his passion for sports, whether it be opining on the shortcomings of the college football Bowl Championship Series or defending his picks for the NCAA college basketball tournament. So perhaps it should have come as no surprise that in announcing his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, the President singled out the federal appeals court judge's landmark 1995 ruling that effectively ended the 232-day baseball strike. "Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball," Obama said on Tuesday. That may be an exaggeration, of course, but there are many baseball observers...
...high expectations for Young reflect his previous successes leading school districts in Newton, Lexington, and Lynnfield. But in Cambridge, the Harvard-trained educator with a passion for English literature will be confronted with challenges unlike those he has seen in his three decade career: how to educate an extraordinarily diverse student population while simultaneously navigating the politics of an urban school district...
...Instead, the Brandeis English major hoped to pursue his passion for writing. But after a short-lived career that involved working as a ghostwriter, textbook contributor, and greeting card composer, Young decided that he “probably wasn’t going to make it” and decided to go back to school...
...soldier and the lawyer may both love this country with equal passion," Barack Obama said in his elegant Notre Dame commencement speech, "and yet reach very different conclusions on the specific steps needed to protect us from harm." You can say that again. In recent weeks, the President and just about every other major politician from both parties have been boggled by soldier-lawyer disputes. Some have been small: whether or not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was adequately briefed on the CIA's use of waterboarding in 2002. Others cut to the core of asymmetrical warfare, especially the question...
...Klaus plans to sign the treaty eventually, why create all this fuss? His friends and his enemies alike say that a combination of two traits feeds his passion for going against the flow: he yearns for the limelight and he views himself as infallible. Even during the communist era, an informer spying on Klaus as he took part in informal economics discussions described him as an abrasive know-it-all. "He makes it clear that who does not go along with his ideas and opinions is simply stupid and incompetent," reads Klaus' secret police file. In team sports, former Czechoslovak...