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...years ago that what best sums up our college experience is whether or not we participated in intramural sports. But who could possibly care about whether we rowed House crew? Instead, shouldn't it say, to be accurate, "Discovered that her time is hers, and she should never, ever, defer life"? Or perhaps "Understood the value of staring at the ceiling, and, when at the front of a long lunch line, often selected individual strands of spaghetti"? Or perhaps "Loved the following people..."? Or maybe "Figured out that no one should ever want to be famous"? Or "Spent too much...
Connery says "sometimes there is a tendency to defer to board members who know more about an area...there are several members of the board with a dance background...
...idea of calculating head proportions fascinates Zachary L. Shrier '99, who says he believes that size does matter. "I tend to think I have an above-average size head." He came to this conclusion after measuring his own head at the Coop. While most seniors defer to head professionals, he just grabbed a tape measure and did it on his own. To his horror, he discovered that his head falls between two hat sizes. "I could either get a nice snug cap and get a headache or get the bigger one and have it falling over my eyes," he says...
Clearly, this crew has a strong sense of team unity, and at the core of this philosophy lies the coaching of Butt. Any of the rowers will defer to Butt's teaching when asked about their motivations...
...hype rival Saving Private Ryan. The stakes: a $10,000 contribution to the charity of the winner's choice. When the deadline rolled around, Beatty claimed victory. (Miramax's final tally was 118 pages, vs. 165 for DreamWorks.) Katzenberg alleged a miscount. But in Hollywood a suit will often defer to a star, especially when so paltry a sum is concerned. Katzenberg paid up. When Beatty told Miramax's HARVEY WEINSTEIN about Katzenberg's concession, Weinstein proclaimed a dubious moral victory...