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...accolades aside, the Dedham, Mass. native brings with him not only the perspective of a former Harvard student and hockey player, but also a level of affability and comfort with New England former coach Mark Mazzoleni’s detractors claim he never...
Sneddon, who was a member of Harvard’s 1989 national championship team as a freshman, seemed to be a particularly attractive choice to follow Mazzoleni, thanks largely to his Harvard roots and presumptive comfort with influential alumni—many of whom were his teammates...
...SAPPORO Take a comfort break on top of the city's highest building. Toilets at the JR Tower's observation room are 160 meters above street level and walled with glass. According to the designer, "one is supposed to do it as if one is taking a leak into a river from the top of a bridge...
...think his faith and his comfort with himself accounts for that optimism. Since he felt that everything happens for a reason, he never saw things darkly. After he was shot and we almost lost him, he lay on his hospital bed staring at the ceiling and praying. He told me that he realized he couldn't pray just for himself, that it wouldn't be right, and that he also had to pray for John Hinckley. Hinckley's parents sent him a note and he wrote a nice one back to them...
Truth is, he was a TV actor before there was TV drama. A movie star typically projects danger and a TV star comfort and familiarity. Reagan had this domesticated appeal--bred in him, perhaps, but also hammered into him by all those roles in which he essentially played the sensible master of ceremonies to a cast of more gifted or committed actors. This steadiness, combined with a voice suggesting unforced manliness and homespun wisdom, made him a welcome, authoritative TV figure and a superb politician...