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Generals come in all varieties--loud and brash, brainy and bookish, and occasionally a little worrisome. Tommy Ray Franks is none of those: he is quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the consummate strong and silent type, the good soldier who shuns the limelight in marked contrast to some of his predecessors at Central Command. All this makes Franks, 57, ideally suited as the go-to general for the second Bush Administration. Retired Admiral Archie Clemins, who commanded the Pacific Fleet when...
Think about it—go through every other team in the NBA and think about the players that Jordan has to guard on an everyday basis. Philadelphia has Allen Iverson, Seattle has Ray Allen, Orlando has Tracy McGrady, the Lakers have Kobe Bryant, Toronto has Vince Carter—the list goes...
...Ray J. Rivera
...Prophet Leo Durocher’s quote “nice guys finish last” could’ve easily come from the Bible. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not particularly nice guys and they did all right. Criminals Ty Cobb, Ray Lewis and Mike Tyson all ruled their respective sports (indeed, Mike Tyson is proof that God is a twisted sports fan—how else could the world’s scariest man have the girliest voice...
Hill’s team’s struggles come on the heels of the Columbia football team’s 0-7 showing in league play last fall, a debacle that claimed Lions coach Ray Tellier. Does the rest of the league care that Columbia’s coaches may soon be falling left and right? It should. The recent push to de-emphasize Ivy athletics hurts the league’s top programs a lot more than it does a Columbia, which has competitiveness issues beyond its head coaches and which, should it decide to fire Hill, will...