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...have easily been spent lamenting over the lost splendors of home. But there were always meetings and rehearsals to attend and articles to write. On weekends, there were parties, strolls in the North End, or movie marathons with my hallway. Often weeks went by before my preoccupied brain had breath to register homesickness...
...Marketers are no fools. They read Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks' satiric deconstruction of the new educated élite and its obsession with useful leisure activities, and they are well aware that today's overachieving superparents can't bear the thought of their obviously exceptional offspring wasting breath on any activity that won't help them win early acceptance to Princeton. ("Now, Sweetpea, you know Madison can't sleep over on Fridays because then you're both too grumpy for your Saturday-morning bilingual yoga class...
...haven't met the rest of my family. So let's not necessarily conclude that they have the best genes. But if either one chose tennis, I would marvel at their grit and ultimately have to respect that. And I would have to take a deep breath...
...shelters from Israeli bombs, the Hizballah leader appears more soothing than bellicose. There is none of Saddam Hussein's finger wagging or Yasser Arafat's eye-bulging lectures or Osama bin Laden's hectoring sneer. Instead, Nasrallah reads deliberately from notes, occasionally swallowing as if to catch his breath. Every so often, he looks into the camera and flashes a smile...
...players say Coach K is a breath of fresh air after Larry Brown's reign as national- team coach. "There are no restraints on this team," says Wade, an Athens vet who contends that Brown discouraged him from trying to score too much. "That was kind of our problem in '04. One guy could do this, another guy couldn't." Krzyzewski's vibe has fired up the team; the practices are crisp and competitive. "The way he can connect with everybody, it's unbelievable," says Brad Miller, Team USA big man (at 7 ft.), who plays for the Sacramento Kings...