Word: amateurness
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...like going to the bar," says Little Su, a Xiaoli doctor who put himself through medical school with the spoils of treasure hunts beneath the fields around his home. "If you're bored one night, someone will say, 'Hey, let's go find a tomb.'" The rewards of these amateur and often dangerous nocturnal expeditions are evident in Little Su's wardrobe--he has long since traded in baggy peasant garb for snazzy Playboy shirts and gleaming loafers--and in the incongruous mishmash of mud-brick shacks and shiny white-tiled houses with satellite dishes lining the streets of Xiaoli...
...situation] is totally beyond the limits of the talent or imagination of George Plimpton, the world's consummate amateur... Consider what he has done. He has sparred three bloody rounds (his blood) with Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion of the world. He has pitched to major-league baseball stars in Yankee Stadium; he has shanked and hooked his way over golf links... and lost to Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured...
...Professional Amateur TIME critic Gerald Clarke, who often covered the literary side of writer George Plimpton [Milestones, Oct. 6], wrote a profile of Plimpton that included a telling list of experiments by Plimpton as he bravely followed a variety of pursuits [Sept...
...Amateur peddlers and seasoned salespeople alike are coming together at Crimsonxchange.com to sell their textbooks, electronics and maybe even their souls at the Harvard-only auction site. Up and running since September 1, 2003, the eBay-inspired business is the brainchild of Sam W. Lessin ’05 and Tali B. Rapaport...
...have stadiums to play in, the players pay their own way to matches, and "if they swap shirts at the end of a game," says sports journalist Paata Tortadze, "they may find themselves without kit the next week." In places like Georgia, rugby is still largely an amateur sport. But in its traditional bastions of England, France, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa it has, since turning professional in 1995, become a multi-billion-dollar industry. So the fifth World Cup, which kicks off in Sydney on Oct. 10 ,will be a big tent that welcomes rugby's developed...