Word: presented
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...help. Agassi leaned on J.R. Moehringer, who won a Pulitzer for feature writing in 2000, to craft mounds of interview transcripts into a coherent narrative, told in the present tense. (Moehringer, feeling that the book belonged to Agassi alone, refused to put his name on the cover.) Their doubles team clicked. One passage describes how a teenage Andre, landing in Las Vegas after a tournament in Seoul, makes the bold decision to embrace his taskmaster dad. Mike Agassi tortured his son with endless drills; he wasn't the cuddly type. When the moment arrives, Mike "stiffens," Agassi writes. "It feels...
...race represents a poor decision on Abdullah’s part and a step back on Afghanistan’s road to recovery. Abdullah’s decision not to challenge incumbent Hamid Karzai in a runoff election can be explained as a principled protest of the widespread fraud present in the electoral proceedings, but it also means the controversial Karzai’s legitimacy as a ruler will not be popularly affirmed, but instead ordained by electoral officials suspected of corruption and fraud...
...second round of voting would have enhanced the legitimacy of the election. A runoff, which would have been subject to intense public scrutiny, would have at least represented a new opportunity for a more open election and given the victor some level of legitimacy that is not currently present...
After a four hour wait, the Cambridge Public School Committee election results were to be announced. The three candidates present, Patricia M. Nolan ’80, Alan R. Steinert, Jr. ’58. and Alice L. Turkel stood with the rest of the Cantabrigian present to hear the results...
Like many others present in the room, she was optimistic towards the possibility for change in the dynamics of the school committee. “I’m hoping that we’ll have a radical result, perhaps some new members,” said Alan Dobson, another Cambridge resident...