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...leading the cause for Summers’ ouster, “Harvard has to stop pretending it’s a liberal arts school.” He is not alone in this assesment: most students support Summers because he seems to be a straight thinker and a straight talker...
...announcement that they accepted the resignation ?with regret.? But Summers has been remarkably resilient through other flashes of faculty anger, even last year?s no-confidence vote on the heels of the women-in-science imbroglio. And he came into the job with a reputation as a blunt talker...
...shorter members of the team, Garcia isn’t your typical water polo player, but his strength and speed enable him to rise out the water and overpower his opponents. And his game is louder than his mouth. “He is not much of a talker,” Burmeister said. “But when he does talk, everyone really takes it to heart.” When the team was riding out the ups and downs of its heretofore roller coaster season, Garcia’s consistent play and optimism helped keep the team focused...
...listen to people who have known him longest, what sets Roberts apart is not so much his individual virtues but how they marry: a great talker who listens well, a natural talent who works unnaturally hard, a regular guy who moonlights as a legal star. In his prime-time introduction of his nominee to take the place of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, President George W. Bush drove right past the fact that Roberts is a reliably conservative fellow who would not "legislate from the bench" and lingered instead on the career and character that would make...
...known for his pivotal interception for the New York Jets in 1969's Super Bowl III--the last game of his 11-year career--that helped push the Jets to their storied 16-7 upset of the heavily favored Baltimore Colts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. An early "trash talker," he winkingly acknowledged his reputation in a 1970 memoir, Confessions of a Dirty Player...