Word: sporting
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While pausing for applause and chuckles from the audience throughout his speech, Simmons criticized Black heterosexual intellectuals for their biases against gay Black men, citing such examples as "Black men should be masculine and not faggots because they dominate the sport of boxing," and "Some gay Blacks result from young Black boys playing with blond dolls...
Despite the family sport of wrestling with issues, Kerrey gave no early indication that within him beat the heart of a skillful, if unorthodox, politician. High school classmates remember him as bright, fun loving, outspoken and very competitive, but he was not a B.M.O.C. At the University of Nebraska he held a few minor student and fraternity offices, dated often and pursued a degree in pharmacy, which he was awarded in 1966. By then, U.S. participation in the war in Vietnam was escalating and Kerrey enlisted. "I was pretty gung-ho," he says now. In March...
Mike dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player -- but hey, it was "Mischief Night," the eve before Halloween, and the 14-year-old had another sport on his mind: Jew baiting. Using a can of shaving cream, he sprayed the words F--- YOU JEW BAGEL, without the dash, on the garage of Eugene Markovitz, 67, the oldest and most prominent rabbi in Clifton, N. J. Joining the fun were Mike's pals Johnny (whose best friend, he says, is Jewish) and Peter (whose grandfather rescued Holocaust Jews in Holland). I HATE JEWS, scrawled one boy. GO BACK TO YOUR...
Whether amused or appalled by the name calling, Texans are not surprised. "Dirtiness has been a Texas tradition," says Republican consultant John Weaver. "It's a blood sport." While the candidates have been slashing with equal vigor, Williams' ads have had far more visibility because he has outspent Richards $17 million to $11 million. A self-made success in oil and ranching, Williams threw $6.5 million of his own into the pot. Yet last week a Gallup poll showed that his lead of 10 points had diminished to 5 since September. The survey indicated that Williams has slipped...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass--Some of the state's top economists, including three who sport Nobel Prizes on their mantles, charge Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) with misleading voters about a proposed tax rollback petition on the November ballot...