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Gordon Roddick seems the perfect foil for Anita. With his Scottish burr and occasional stutter, he is steady where she is erratic and quiet where she is brash. London analysts believe he is the financial wizard behind Anita's success. But he is best known in Body Shop lore for a voyage he took a few years into the marriage. The young couple had just sold a struggling restaurant when Gordon announced that he wanted to fulfill a lifelong dream: to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York City, an adventure he figured would take about two years...
...ways of the Wasp linger today, despite condoms and Madonna. America attracts hard workers from abroad and breeds them at home, whatever Japanese politicians may think. Thomas Jefferson could still vaguely recognize our politics (Aaron Burr would certainly recognize our dirty politics). Survey after survey finds that Americans are the most religious people in the industrialized world, and the seriousness with which we take our sex scandals amazes cynical Europeans...
...Martina has done a good job for us," Brown Coach Jean Marie Burr said. "She's kept us on a steady pace throughout the season...
...Burr hesitates to comment on tomorrow night's game, standing firm on the standard "I take one game at a time" philosophy. The Bears face Dartmouth tonight in what should be a hardfought battle...
...very exciting weekend for me," Burr said. "It's nice to have the three best teams playing [for the title] on the last weekend of the season...