Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mercurial relationship between Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi and renowned paleoanthropologist and wildlife advocate Richard Leakey has transfixed Kenyans for more than a decade. After first meeting Moi in 1968, Leakey gave occasional advice to the President, and in 1989 Moi made Leakey head of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Then came drama. Leakey quit and helped form an anticorruption opposition party; Moi branded him a neocolonial racist; a state-owned newspaper tied Leakey to the Ku Klux Klan; and progovernment thugs beat him when he attended a colleague's court hearing. "How much of it was deep [hatred...
...fully intends to be CEO when Karmazin's current contract expires. "Look, Sumner Redstone is one of the four or five corporate geniuses," says radio icon and longtime Karmazin friend Don Imus. "And Mel is in that class with Rupert, Ted and Eisner. We'll see what sort of relationship they have...
What am I doing here? Serena Williams asked herself in the middle of the championship tie breaker that would help her make history, allow her to fulfill her father's predictions and alter her relationship with her older sister. It was a moment of doubt. But being 17, she dismissed it quickly--just as swiftly as she recovered from the nervousness that tripped up two earlier chances to win the title outright in her match against Martina Hingis. Serena's prevailing ethos reasserted itself: she doesn't lose tie breakers. She hasn't lost one all year. The rule held...
...wily Hingis last week, Serena, in her third year as a professional, also proved that she was no longer a bratty wannabe with a tendency to feud with other players: if she is ever cocky in the future, well, that's just a champion's confidence showing. Even her relationship with Hingis (with whom she has exchanged sharp words in the press) was different after the victory. Never one to admit weakness, Serena acknowledged Hingis' prowess and her ability to take advantage of her whenever she "slacked off." And Hingis returned the favor. Serena's serves, she said, "were, like...
...gorgeous blondes handing out the day's lecture guidelines at the lecture hall's back doors. But professors need to provide for their students something more than what can be condensed into a few pages of notes. Inspiration, awe, frustration, outrage--whatever the reaction, there must be an emotional relationship between the professor and the student created by the experience in the lecture hall...