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...After all, he was supposed to be Team USA's savior, plucked from his perch atop Duke University to salvage America's international basketball pride following a sixth-place finish at the 2002 Worlds and bronze at the Athens Olympics. Hailed as the perfect blend of disciplinarian (he attended West Point), patriot and motivator, Coach K was the man for the job of assuaging millionaire egos and returning basketball gold to its rightful home, the inner-city blacktops and sweaty YMCA gyms in which the sport was reared...
...although my pride was initially wounded, I only realized after writing papers throughout my sophomore year that its concepts make sense. You really should always have a motive when you start writing a paper—i.e., a problem to solve or a new angle on someone else’s interpretation...
...touted, "Disneyfied," Butler said, but not supported, and Katrina blew apart the social fabric that kept the traditions alive. Michael White, a clarinetist and musical historian at Xavier University, said it was shameful that so many valuable musical collections, like his own, were in private homes and never given pride of place in the city...
...idea was born out of the criticism that we weren't ethnically diverse enough. We had to solve the problem by finding people from different ethnic groups. Then when we started interviewing those people, many of them kept bringing up their ethnic pride. That's where the idea to separate them came from...
...remarks about ?The View? were intended to refer to the media attention and circus-like atmosphere surrounding the show in recent months; not the show itself. She assures TIME that in no way were her comments meant to be insensitive or derogatory about a program she takes great pride in having built and been associated with for the last nine years...