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...It’s interesting that we have these models of what is ideal, and it doesn’t deviate from that very much… It’s hard being a part of this icon. How can we do that? And yet we still want that. It’s a weird sort of duality,” she says...
...have been told and retold since the very first days of this senior’s freshman year. First, there was Patitucci’s Undergraduate Council campaign, during which he postered half the Yard with a photograph of himself in a Speedo. Later that spring, Patitucci became an icon on the intramural circuit after breaking his arm in the climax of a softball game and then passionately pumping his fist in a symbolic act of determination. And Patitucci quickly became well-known in the freshman party scene, as the crazy kid who carried a traveling bar in his backpack...
Shapiro's melding of sports and entertainment has people making comparisons with another sports legend. "He's like Roone Arledge," says veteran producer Bud Morgan, who has worked with Shapiro and the late ABC icon. "Only smarter." And like Arledge, Shapiro is not the lovable Lou Grant type. He is quick to praise, but he is brutally honest--this spring he started informal "town hall" meetings with staff groups, at which he said he would push aside nonperformers. His commercial instincts have also drawn fire. Actress Thea Andrews is featured as a flirty sports reporter on Playmakers...
...DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, American swimmer who was briefly a national icon after she became the first woman to swim the English Channel; in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Ederle accomplished the feat in 1926 in a then world-record time...
...INDICATORS Time's Up Internet icon Martha Lane Fox announced she would step down as managing director of Lastminute.com, the British online retailer she co-founded in 1998. The group announced an annual pre-tax profit...