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Williams stands out as an athlete, an African American and a woman. It seems fitting that Williams won this award at the Arthur Ashe Stadium, named after the first black man to win a major tennis title. But Williams encompasses a different model than that of the late Arthur Ashe himself. We remember Ashe as the perfect gentleman, molded to the etiquette of his day and sport. We view Williams, however, as an athlete and a woman pushing to the extremes of her physical and mental strength through personal expression and dedication...
Tennis is a sport historically grounded in the Wimbledon-esque model of gentility. A player like Venus Williams should be commended for challenging what it means to be a tennis player--and a female athlete...
Officials from the Gates Foundation hope the project in Peru will be used as a model for work in other countries...
...well spoken, Thorpe has been embraced by a public disturbed by the antics of sportsmen such as local tennis brat Lleyton Hewitt. Thorpe's impact on Australian youth has been compared with the Tiger Woods phenomenon in golf. "He's become a similar figure of hope, an ultimate role model," argues 1988 Olympic 200-m champion Duncan Armstrong. Thorpe has been a cover boy on magazines ranging from the frivolous to the prestigious, and many Australians feel they know a lot about him--from his shoe size (17) to his taste in music (grunge) to the girls he gets mushy...
Promising to "leave no child behind," Bush pledges to replicate the Texas model on a national scale. While Gore calls for voluntary tests in fourth and eighth grades, Bush would require states to test children every year from third through eighth grades or lose 5% of their federal aid. If a school turned in failing grades three years in a row, its students would receive federal vouchers for tuition at parochial or other private schools. But each state would control the content of its exams...