Word: tarred
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...innocuous, though. The same year of Lett's gallivanting, Michigan forward Chris Webber cost his team the NCAA title. Webber, who had the ball with 11 seconds left, called a timeout his team didn't have. The ensuing technical foul and possession for North Carolina gave the Tar Heels its first championship in 11 years...
University of North Carolina: UNC is the benevolent counterpart to "Shu-shef-skee" and his evil Dukies. Coached for years by Dean "The Dean" Smith, and now by the adequate Bill Guthridge, the Tar Heels have a special gambling place in my heart: every year I predict they'll make the Final Four, and every year they lose in the early rounds to the likes of Weber State. Who? Yeah, you don't know either. This year I corrected that and predicted they'd lose to a stronger Stanford in the second round. Instead, they appear to be on their...
...Tar Heels forfeited the Nos. 2 and 3 doubles matches in order to rest their players...
...this is only the best known example of a war of words to tar the Republican contenders as overly sympathetic to the "Old South." A civil rights think tank took Bush to task for writing letters on behalf of the respected Museum of the Confederacy and holding a fund-raising ball where guests dressed in 19th century costume. Dealing with periods of history where ideas were espoused that we now see as wrong has always been a difficult problem, but the attacks on Bush are the wrong way to deal with the dubious legacy of the Confederacy...
...approach the past. It is vitally important that we understand and accept that all societies and eras had flaws, just as in contemporary America there is much that does not accord with our highest principles. The best memorial to the sufferings of the past is not to tar history with a broad brush but to strive to understand the complex nature of the societies that perpetrated wrong...