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It’s hard to be a wine aficionado in college. Whenever I stare into a plastic cup full of God-knows-what at a Harvard party, I always think of that scene from Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” where an intoxicated Oxford student vomits on another, and one of the drunkard’s friends explains to the vomitee: “The wines were too various….It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was mixture...
...Throw in this year's high-profile failures in other global sports - the U.S. hockey team's freeze-up in Torino, baseball's loss to Canada (Canada!), in the World Baseball Classic, and the soccer team's struggles at the World Cup (did we mention Tour de France "champ" Floyd Landis and track star Justin Gatlin, both accused of doping?) - and the basketball World Championship, which starts Aug. 19th in Japan, takes on added urgency...
...When you watched the [soccer] World Cup for these countries, there is an outpouring of emotion," says Krzyzewski. "Win or lose, we want an outpouring of emotion." Forget about the dancing in the streets, Coach K, we're not that demonstrative a people. We expect to win gold in basketball, our game. Krzyzewski doesn't have to start a celebration. He just needs to bring the hardware back home...
...suite at the Four Seasons Hotel. I have a view of Central Park. I'm living my dream. It would never have occurred to me that I would be able to have this lifestyle. I get up every morning at 5 a.m. I get my cup of coffee, I go into my office, and I go back into the world of Plum. I leave the real world and move into my make-believe world. It just doesn't get any better than that...
With the dramatic end of the 2006 World Cup, fans around the globe emerged from a month of shattering defeats and exhilarating victories. Readers cheered the host nation, grappled with a certain star's confounding use of his head and made decisive calls on how to improve the role of the game's referees Re "Italy's cup" [July 17]: time was enthusiastic about the success and drama of the monthlong World Cup saga, and described in superlatives various aspects of the games and their positive effect on Germany in particular. As a TV viewer who witnessed most...