Word: sporting
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What's at stake can be seen clearly at St. Adalbert's School, on a dreary back street in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood--a precinct seldom visited by snowplows, where many residents work at low-wage jobs or are unemployed. Yet students at St. Adalbert's sport crisp uniforms and each morning recite the Lord's Prayer together. Discipline is tight; the courses are rigorous. It's not hard to see why so many parents view this place--and the voucher program that has brought their kids to it--as a lifeline...
...entitled to a share of the profits, why doesn't Woods take it a step further and request a payoff from the television stations that broadcast the matches? And how about a cut from the electric companies that supply the power to TV viewers who watch the most boring sport on the planet? TERRENA SHEA Westbrook, Conn...
...LANCE ARMSTRONG It seemed no less than a miracle when cancer survivor Armstrong won the 1999 Tour de France, cycling's--and perhaps all of sport's--most grueling event. As if to prove his feat real, he repeated...
...VLADIMIR KRAMNIK In the chess world it's flattering to be known as Supernerd, and that is what they call the man who ended fellow Russian and former mentor Garry Kasparov's 15-year reign as world champ. Not a sport, you say? Kramnik, 25, quit smoking and dropped 20 lbs. to prep for the match...
...bully. Amazingly, the veep even figured out how to elicit the wrath of a Mr. Rogers-esque Jim Lehrer, the moderator of the debates. Al, trying to be bold, failed miserably when he broke the debate rules that he had agreed to heed. Americans honor the good sport because the truly good sport is a rarity. You can fight for me on the issues all you want Al, but don't break into a brawl with Jim Lehrer because he reminds you to stop speaking at the red light...