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...Crazy, right? In case you aren’t a women’s hockey aficionado, a little bit of context...
...alternate between eighties, rock, and country music to avoid dance mixes. “The constant beat drives me crazy after a while,” he explained. Kirkland varies its styles, with anything from seventies to Rage Against the Machine playing at the grill. But the true music aficionado of K-House is card swiper Tommy Hardy, a club bouncer with a Clash-inspired tommy gun tattoo and his own iPod dock stationed at his desk. Despite his diverse music tastes, he limits what he plays at work. “Obviously I’m not going...
...management is to blame. Former president Matt Millen, a former NFL linebacker who joined the team in 2001 and was finally fired this season after a multitude of public fan protests, strung together years of failed draft picks to dig Detroit into its current hole. Although every armchair football aficionado knows that defensive- and offensive-line play wins championships (or at least a game or two), Millen repeatedly spent top draft choices on low-impact wide receivers, despite not having a good quarterback to throw them the ball. The low point: in 2003 Millen used the second overall pick...
According to Cigar Aficionado, nearly half of all U.S. Presidents smoked. Ulysses S. Grant never shook the cigar habit he picked up during the Civil War. William McKinley had a similar love of stogies, but like Obama, he never allowed himself to be photographed in the act. Theodore Roosevelt barred his daughter Alice from smoking in the White House, so she took her habit to the roof. Calvin Coolidge was known to offer cigars to Congressmen after White House breakfasts...
...avid reader of Agatha Christie novels, Okonjo-Iweala is also an aficionado of African art and Persian rugs. She loves Nigerian food and traditional music, her children say. Her desire to promote what Uzodinma calls “the cultural patrimony,” combined with her love of travel, has translated into her wildly successful career...