Word: butlering
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Tonya Harding and her unfortunate crowbar antics were missed in Salt Lake City this year. But for figure skating fans with a leftover thirst for scandal, the Olympics did not disappoint. Matthew L. Butler ’04 was glued to the TV coverage of the controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya...
Eliot House’s annual Evening With Champions benefit makes good things possible for ailing children. It also made good things possible for Butler, a member of the Harvard Figure Skating Club, who was asked to accompany Russian skaters from their training facility in Hackensack, N.J. to Cambridge for the October 2000 performance. Butler jumped at the chance to chat with coach Tamara Moscvina and her current pair Berezhnaya and Sikharvlidze. Moscvina proceeded to talk to Butler for the duration of the three-hour drive to Cambridge, he remembers, telling stories about her previous pairs teams and answering...
After the trip, the two exchanged e-mail addresses and met the next day at Starbucks. Moscvina realized she was dealing with a knowledgeable, die-hard skating fan who had been watching her two star skaters for years, so she asked Butler if he had any ideas for music to which the pair would skate...
...Butler was beside himself when Moscvina agreed to use Butler’s choice, which Olympic commentators said suited the Russian pair well. “It is an incredible selection, and it will be remembered forever because they won the gold medal to it,” Butler says...
...miracle has skeptics, and Botox has earned its share. Dr. Robert Butler, president of the International Longevity Center, worries that "no one will look as if they have facial expressions" and that repeated use of the drug, which requires an injection every few months, could "create a psychological dependence." Down-market clinics could flourish, offering the drug for $100 by diluting it, thus causing creepy side effects. Dr. Debra Jaliman, a dermatologist who teaches a Botox course at Manhattan's Mount Sinai, is a proponent of the drug but has corrected nasty complications from other doctors' misapplied injections: "Eyelid droop...