Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms in office that in 1984 Cisneros was considered a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate. But last week the mayor, 41, took a dive off his pedestal into the sort of public mess that swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with a 39-year-old married campaign worker, Linda Medlar. Said Medlar, wife of a local jeweler, in the same article: "He's the love of my life . . . We hope...
...circle of Thompson's Olympic experience is completed by the people with whom she rowed. "I will always know and care about where they are," says Thompson, who was the only team member still in college...
...Rowing establishes a link with people that is very uncommon in sports and other arenas in life," Thompson notes...
Like most basketball fans, Heinsohn followed the United States Olympic basketball team's rise and fall at the Olympics in Seoul. Unlike a number of those fans who blamed U.S. Coach John Thompson for the team's third-place finish, Heinsohn thinks Thompson did a good job. Heinsohn believes Thompson's approach--stressing a pressure defense instead of a high-scoring offense--was correct...
...Thompson was the perfect coach to try to defeat a world-class team with a team that was only together for two months," Heinsohn says. "That Big East defense (which Thompson uses as coach of Georgetown University) is such that whenever Georgetown would play out of conference, no one would know what to do with...