1.   Admirers see him as a force for intellectual honesty in a highly politicized debate.

2.   Admirers saw it as fusing the sensibilities of Jane Austen and Mary McCarthy.

3.   The Jimmy Connors admirer saw in Agassi what the Larry Bird fan sees in Shaq.

4.   What his admirers often see first is a quintessential role model.

5.   Where admirers see him as an unblinking observer of hard truths, others detect nihilism, at best, and racism, at worst.