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These numbers point to a growing phenomenon that has become more acceptable among the budding Noah Wyles—taking a year off before hitting the books again in medical school.The extra time off not only helps the recent graduates buff up their résumés—it also gives them some time to figure out if seven years of training is worth...
...contender this spot might have been. I imagined puppies tripping over each other in the window of a pet store, the checked red-and-white tablecloths of a little Italian restaurant, the lacquered mahogany walls of a neighborhood pub. For a moment, I even harked back to the buff, headless mannequins in the window of the old Abercrombie, the plastic smiles of the salespeople who always looked like they just hopped off their surfboards. O cruel, harlot fate! Where was the humanity...
...gotten more buff. And my swing's changed. I started changing my swing in late...
Pity this is the most we'll get to see of perennially underappreciated character actor HANK AZARIA'S hunky side in his new one-hour television show, !Huff (or should it be !Buff?), which premieres on Showtime Nov. 7. Azaria plays Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a well-to-do Los Angeles psychiatrist whose life revolves around a bevy of people plagued by varying degrees of insanity. His schizophrenic brother lives behind locked doors in a private mental institution. His best friend, a lawyer, asks him to lie under oath. His mother Izzy, a manipulative, acidic and passive-aggressive divorce played...
...probably shouldn’t have been surprised when Bush failed to make an appearance, even considering that it was an election year. I did think that he would be hungry for opportunities to bolster his campaign, or at the very least buff his public image a bit before the voting booths went up. What I forgot to factor in was the reality that what attracts the media, and voters in turn, determines what politicians emphasize in their quests for popularity. And who was I kidding? Bright, enthusiastic, cancer-curing, symphony-composing 18-year-olds don’t usually...