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Sporting geniuses such as Tiger Woods have an intuitive, almost artistic feel for golf; Harrington belongs to a breed of amateur scientists who use an agonizing process of trial and error to master their craft. "Padraig is the hardest worker I've ever coached, and the most curious," says Bob Torrance, Harrington's 77-year-old swing guru. "[Former great Ben] Hogan was similar, both struggled early in their career. Both learned long and hard, and both became great...
...modern literary tradition—in particular, the Lost Generation writers and their contemporaries—has done something curious in romanticizing the throes of alcoholism. Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald were all raging alcoholics and filled their novels with characters who acted likewise. But never before, and rarely today, does a novelist confront addiction so intimately and personally as Jerzy Pilch in his recently translated novel, “The Mighty Angel.”A darkly humorous, yet undeniably serious, look into the life of a repeatedly relapsing alcoholic (also named Jerzy) and his recovering brethren...
...join the old ball coach at University of South Carolina as head of strength and conditioning for the football program. The popular coach's departure disappointed many of Harvard's athletes, but the opportunity to work with a bigtime SEC football program was lost on no one. For those curious about what Fitz is up to now, it seems that the energetic trainer is already becoming infamous at his new school. Details after the jump...
...having remarried, Drake began trying for baby No. 3. She tried for three years, with no luck. At 30, she was diagnosed with premature menopause and, in an odd twist of fate, had to undergo fertility treatment to have her third child. It struck her as particularly curious, since her identical twin sister never had any fertility problems. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...class committee only teased curious 09-ers to visit www.harvard09.com, the class website which, much to everyone's annoyance, crashed as too many index fingers clicked the provided...