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Somewhere in Ireland last week, the Irish Republican Army got rid of a cache of weapons as international inspectors looked on. The move was meant to impress pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland and revive their appetite for sharing power with Irish nationalists, as the province heads toward November elections. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, flew into Belfast for the occasion. But this careful choreography was replaced with chaos after the I.R.A., apparently to avoid the appearance of surrender, allowed the inspectors to release only the barest facts about the disposal and nothing...
...knew the town from childhood summers at the nearby ranch of oil tycoon H.L. Hunt, a longtime family friend. He remembered Cody's "big-sky libertarian feeling" and theatrically Western spirit (the town was named for showman Buffalo Bill; wannabe gunslingers still walk around in period dress to impress the tourists). In 2001, Francis, who had become a Washington p.r. man for DCI Group, a corporate lobbying firm, wanted to start an organization that would institutionalize the ties between well-connected gay Republicans like himself and the straight party leadership. It would be a "grass-tops" group that would complement...
Freshman Sean Barrett continued to impress, placing seventh. Meanwhile, his classmates captured five more spots in the top 20, with all their times falling under...
...many of us, these four years, bookended by high school overachievement and grueling ascents to professional success, will be the only significant span of time when we aren’t bound to impress anybody. We ought not to squander it. Straight out hedonism is seldom advisable—but a lack of self-consciousness is. When George Plimpton ’48 died last week, obituaries didn’t mention his GPA, or the brilliance of his pronouncements in section. They did include a description of his disrupting a Lexington ceremony honoring Paul Revere’s ride...
...ways through." So what does it take to win a Cup? "In a way, the planets have to line up," says Farr-Jones. Most importantly, he says, you need "the personnel." This means a combination of two types of players: those who do the small but crucial things that impress their teammates, and those capable of the flashy stuff that thrills crowds. "Beyond that," says Farr-Jones, "you need a happy team ? a bunch of spirited guys who are prepared to sacrifice for one another, who are prepared to do whatever it takes." Though Ireland, South Africa and perhaps...