Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cross-country running is a sport that rarelybrings big surprises, but Harvard is counting onbeing the exception. The Crimson is not withouttalented runners, and if the conditions are right,who knows...
...possibility for everybody is a dirty war in which the two sides start outing each other on sexual capers of every kind. For months there have been hints from Clinton's defenders that if his personal life was fair game, Republicans could find their own lives dragged into the sport. On Larry King Live two weeks ago, the President's brother Roger saw fit to observe that "some of the political people...had best watch themselves because of the old 'glass house' story. Be very careful." In the online magazine Salon, a Clinton corner in cyberspace, an unidentified "close ally...
...slam, for the uninitiated, is a kind of poetry Olympics in which poets perform their work before a panel of judges randomly chosen from the audience. Each performer is rated on a scale of 0 to 10; the highest cumulative score wins. It is poetry as team sport; Emily Dickinson vs. Langston Hughes on the wrestling mat. It is not for the faint of heart...
...France [MEDICINE, Aug. 10], creatine is not a drug, and its use is not illegal. It is a nutritional supplement that is available over the counter at almost every nutrition store. Pfanstiehl Laboratories has been manufacturing synthetic high-purity creatine since 1961. We know of no amateur or professional sport in which the use of creatine is banned. Athletes use synthetic creatine to supplement their bodies' natural production of it, increase strength and extend their peak performance. GEORGE HOLSTEIN, President Pfanstiehl Laboratories Inc. Waukegan...
After reading the letter from Canadian Peter T. Lochtie commenting that baseball was invented, watched and played by morons [LETTERS, Aug. 17], I had to respond. Mr. Lochtie, would you prefer for us to watch the "sport" of curling? Or maybe hockey--where all but the few truly terrible teams somehow make the playoffs? Granted the sport of baseball has changed over the years, and not always for the better, but to condemn it across the board is ridiculous. Please, sir, leave my national pastime to me, and I'll leave yours to you. MITCHEL W. GILREATH Lewiston...