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☆ ‘Even Jordan doesn’t have his face on a sneaker’: How Stan Smith became both a tennis and fashion icon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Depending on your age, the name Stan Smith probably means one of two things. Even Jordan doesn’t have his face on a sneaker.”Stan Smith during his victorious 1972 Wimbledon run. The rise in popularity of the Stan Smith sneaker coincided with a slump towards the end of his tennis career and it began permeating a wide array of cultures in the UK and US. “It was one of my goals to win that tournament,” Smith says. Stan Smith, Ilie Năstase and Tom Okker at a meeting of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in London, 20th June 1973.

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☆ Opinion | Jim Jordan Doesn’t Know What Courage Is
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s hard to overstate the extent to which our nation’s absurd Jim Jordan moment encapsulates the deep dysfunction of the political right in the United States. There’s of course all the chaos and incompetence of the Trumpist Republican Party, on display for the world to see. The Republican base admires Jordan because it thinks he is tough. Instead, he is a symbol of the way in which Trumpist Republicans have corrupted the concept of courage itself. To understand what courage is supposed to be, I turn to a definition from C.S.

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☆ Opinion: Jim Jordan’s pressure campaign backfired
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Over the past few days, Jordan tried to pressure fellow Republicans into voting for him. He mounted an intense campaign over the weekend to whip up the vote and undermine support for Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise. Arkansas Republican Steve Womack decried the “attack, attack, attack” methods that Jordan has been using. Within the GOP, Jordan has not been a figure who is well loved. At a potential turning point moment for the party, Jordan doesn’t have many chits he can call in to round up the votes.

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CNN —Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is bringing the House back to the floor Tuesday to vote on whether he will succeed ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy and finally end the chamber’s prolonged paralysis amid deep GOP divisions. But it’s not clear whether Jordan can be the one who unifies the fractured House Republican conference, with some lawmakers still opposed. Jordan can now only lose three votes, instead of four, but this is a temporary drop until the Florida congressman returns. “We need to get a speaker tomorrow,” Jordan said Monday after leaving a closed-door GOP conference meeting. Several Republicans – including from districts won by President Joe Biden – declined to say Monday evening whether they would vote for Jordan on the floor.

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