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...ordinary family. His father, Robert Black, was principal of the segregated Boykin Street Elementary School in Auburn, Ala., during the George Wallace era. When he could not integrate the student body, he integrated the staff instead and began teaching French to fourth-graders. When his sons wanted to swim in the all-white community pool, he told them to do it. And when young Keith showed an early fondness for dissection, he brought home a cow's heart from the local slaughterhouse. "He was the ultimate educator," Black recalls. "He instilled in us an attitude that there is nothing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TUMOR WAR | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Christian Impact; Women's Varsity Waterpolo Co-Captain; Crimson Sports; Women's Varsity Swim Team Eastern Champion; UC Representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1998 CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD & RADCLIFFE CLASS MARSHALS | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

...many turnovers because we haven't protected the ball well," Benson explained. "We've been putting the ball at [Zimmerman's] head or to where he has to swim for it. As a result we have put him in a position where he can get mugged...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Engineers Shock Men's Water Polo 11-10 | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

...death of many inefficient firms that have been propped up by government loans and subsidies. "This is the first time the government has been willing to push everyone into the ocean," says Denis Simon, a China strategist for Andersen Consulting. "They're essentially saying, 'O.K., you either sink or swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: SOCIALISM DIES, AGAIN | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...share everything together. I thought that we were a very good team... Here was a fairy story that everybody wanted to work. And it was isolating, but it was also a situation where you couldn't indulge in feeling sorry for yourself. You had to either sink or swim, and you had to learn that very fast... I swam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN LIVING MEMORY | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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