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...Texas in a quiz bowl.” Sulllivan said that Vaz is deceptively modest about his ability to remember facts. “You wouldn’t think he actually knows stuff if you talk to him. You’d think he was kind of an idiot,” Sullivan quipped. Sullivan added that a favorite pastime of Vaz and his friends was to play a drinking game they called “Stump Vik.” But when asked if anyone could actually do the name of the game, Sullivan said...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trivia-Friendly Alum Tests Wits on Jeopardy | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...What an idiot,” you must be thinking. What blown opportunities! So imagine my embarrassment when my Grandma Joan, went up to him one day and asked him to sign her VHS copy of “The Air Up There...

Author: By Theodore B. Bressman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Footloose’ for a Cause | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...strikeouts and allowed only two hits and one walk for the rest of the game. With exceptional control, he kept the Harvard hitters behind in the count by throwing fastballs for strikes and finishing them with an array of deceptive breaking pitches. “I looked like an idiot swinging at his slider,” captain Morgan Brown said. “He’s got a very, very good one...He’s got a fastball that’s probably better than a lot of the guys’ we’ve faced...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Boston College’s Ratliff proves once again he has Crimson’s number | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve is the book's sometime narrator "Slow Bones" Hugh, Boone's 100-kg idiot-savant brother. Wandering city streets with his folding chair, "I was up and off like a greyhound after an electric hare," says Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...Paradinas, who writes about soccer for daily newspaper El País, says insults at soccer games - even when targeted at a player's race - are merely examples of aggressive gamesmanship, intended to distract opponents. "It's like calling someone fat or ugly, a dwarf or an idiot," he says. "People use whatever physical characteristic they can to provoke someone." Carles Viñas, author of The World of the Ultras: Spanish Football's Rad-icals, disagrees. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in Spain about this," he says. "People don't want to admit to the racism that exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Game | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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