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...Levada is, for one thing, the first American ever to reach such an influential position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, California, who headed the diocese in Portland, Oregon, before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known for his diplomatic skills, which temper his conservative positions on most doctrinal issues. For example, though a vocal opponent of Mayor Gavin Newsom's flurry of gay weddings last year, Levada had earlier worked out a Solomonic solution that resulted in health benefits for gay partners. He has been criticized for his slow and secretive response...
Blustery conditions did little to temper the enthusiasm of Saturday’s Penn Relays. Attendance over the three-day track extravaganza totaled 108,809, and those on hand witnessed several stellar performances—although many Crimson athletes didn’t have their best showing...
...CRUMB: Yeah, I was a base baby. My father was that kind of man. That real classic, American John Wayne type of guy. A very intimidating man. Deep booming voice. A hot temper. If he got angry he might strike...
Bolton's supporters acknowledge he has a temper and may not always have treated subordinates kindly, but they say Democrats are using Bolton's abrasive personality as an excuse to kill a nomination they oppose on ideological grounds. "If being occasionally tough and aggressive and abrasive were a problem," chided Vice President Dick Cheney, "a lot of members of the United States Senate wouldn't qualify." Said Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank where Bolton once worked: "This is not the outrage of sincere grownups over the malfeasance...
...left of home plate, he has scarcely stirred from the position he staked nearly 23 major league seasons, almost 4,192 hits, ago. The brush-cut hair that blew to bangs and billowed to bouffant has been tamed and dyed. The kneesprung crouch has lost barely a trace of temper. The burly body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat and breaststrokes like...