In an era of often meddling men like Daniel Snyder and Jerry Jones, Holt is the antithesis of the visible and vocal modern professional sports owner.
She says one reason the government has long dithered over the draft legislation may be because it is loth to be seen meddling in men's private affairs.It is no surprise, then, that victims believe reporting abuse will do little good.
Unfortunately, it was also the story of old men meddling in a young man's game, of a deception that ultimately led to the team's disqualification.
Directors of strategy, or whatever fancy title anyone calls them, are middle men — or meddle men — between owner and team trainers.
As "a meddling numbers man," as Mr. Ganis referred to him, Mr. Farrell was not initially welcomed by Hollywood's old-boy network.
The link through mutual meddling of "man" and "earth" is indeed missing here.
While the initial plan is to wow audiences with this new custom-made creature (Verizon Wireless even signs on to sponsor it), this is the Jurassic series, after all, where no one learns any lessons about meddling in those "things man wasn't meant to do".
In his gripping new biography, "Catherine the Great" (Random House, $35), Robert K. Massie reveals a young woman lorded over by a tempestuous monarch, a meddling mother and a man-child husband who raised hunting dogs in her sleeping chambers.
One headline — "WITH DOUGH ON HER HANDS, SHE WILL SHOOT A FILM" — alluded to a venerable idiom of Turkish patriarchy: "Those with dough on their hands shouldn't meddle with a man's work".
Today, a befuddled suburban man endures his meddling mother's advice every day because she lives across the street.
