Word: schmidts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Skansi and other coaches, there are more immediate concerns as the tournament moves into the single elimination medal round this week. Can anyone stop Lithuania's Sarunas Marciulionis? Will Brazil's Oscar Schmidt ever forgo a three-point shot for a pass to a teammate? Will U.S. forward Charles Barkley keep his elbows to himself? The answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When...
Christopher C. Schmidt, who owns Zerkelo productions on Fayerweather St., agrees that Cambridge is an important filmmaking center. "It could be the diversity, or the intelligentsia," he says...
...time, however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them so. And in Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilians have one of the game's best three-point shooters. But even if you put all these players on one squad, it would make no difference. The remaining 11 teams in the Olympic tournament will be scuffling for silver...
Adapted by Paul Schmidt from Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya...
...Schmidt brings a great deal of credibility to the project. Nonetheless, some educators wonder if access to schooling, long considered one of the most vital public missions of a democratic society, should be entrusted to people also concerned with the bottom line. Critics of the venture argue that it diverts energy and attention from efforts to reform the public education system from within. Every other major democracy educates its children in public schools, they say, so why should the U.S. rely on entrepreneurs? Schmidt's reply: "We need the freedom to try to create new conceptions on a completely clean...