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With all the losing, why do the players bother playing ball? Basketball can be a 25-hours-a-week commitment. Shouldn't they use that time to get a head start on problem sets instead of slogging through practice after pulling all-nighters? "I have often asked myself that question," says Yang Hai, a 6-ft., 140-lb. (1.83 m, 63.5 kg) bench player. "I'm not that good. The team's not that good. What am I doing here...
...Pizza Ring, PBR, and “Family Guy” DVDs. But he was all smiles when I caught up with him, taking a water break in his glistening white t-shirt and five-years-ago aviators. Steven, glad to see you are staying hydrated. Does it bother you that practically every DJ we have heard here tonight is French, German, or Dutch? “I am not at all suspicious of all the Europeans,” he replied, coughing through gulps of water. “My music tastes generally trend to guys like the Eagles...
...than you. Has that ever made you self-conscious? -Rozzie Franco, ORLANDO, FLA.Actually, she's not taller than me. Just with heels on, she's a lot taller. But you know what? She's beautiful, and I love it when she feels glamorous and beautiful. So it doesn't bother me. I know the truth...
...once browsed through the Courses of Instruction looking for classes whose descriptions were sympathetic to their own interests, perhaps checking afterwards the reviews of prior enrollees. Poor rubes! In this streamlined age, the process is inverted: first, come to the table with a number in mind; afterwards, you can bother with the actual topic and content of the course. The cluttered old catalog, with its idiosyncratic and long-winded descriptive paragraphs following the course titles, has been rendered obsolete by crisp tables of course titles each followed by a chain of 10 numbers. Nowadays, that?...
...Clinton will be wearing! I should probably interject that I have never voted and that my idea of civic responsibility is my encyclopedic knowledge of the contents of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding trousseau. I am sure this offends many of you, and this doesn’t bother me. If you grew up in Rhode Island, home to four electoral votes and the only state in the union to have a mayor, a governor and two Supreme Court justices all in jail at the same time, I doubt you would vote either.Though I feel incapable of assessing...