Word: swimming
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...movies), the special prosecutor was practicing the sort of age-of-Oprah personality politics of which his nemesis Bill Clinton, that great white whale of a President, is master. Not only is this ethically dubious on Starr's part; it's stupid: Would Ahab challenge Moby Dick to a swim meet? Would Leon Jaworski...
While race relations at the College later became an integral part of Epps' office, his first official duties were apolitical. He was charged with researching the College's requirement that students learn to swim...
...George Washington High School, is in the National Honor Society, participates in the Science Bowl and is already a member of the National Society of Black Engineers. Besides carrying a rigorous academic program and holding down a part-time job designing Web pages, he is on the school swim team. "I get my studying done at school during study hall," he says. "When I get home, I can do other things, like play sports or hang out." Nathan, who wants someday to be an aeronautical engineer, formed good study habits in fourth grade when a teacher, as he remembers, "used...
militant: (adj.) to be strongly for something, used by the Harvard swim team...
...call his mother." The audience, of course, roars its approval and the consensus of nodding heads makes it clear that no one is taking offense. He proceeds along similar lines for most of the show: "There are no Jewish athletes. All we had was Mark Spitz. He took one swim, got nauseous and quit." Sometimes he probes deeper, managing to combine laughter and the uncomfortable (arguing, for instance, that Jews find solace in the medical field because they can't be persecuted). Generally, however, Jackie's comedy depends on praising or humiliating the Jew--in comparison, of course, to other...