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...Harvard undergraduate, gubernatorial candidate and State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) was as close to the stereotypical briefcase-toting "gov jock...
Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
...holidays and ecotourism, not yachting or casino crawling. With salaries for researchers that start at about $90,000 and can climb well over $500,000 for those who excel, they could afford to dress with the flash of yesterday's gunslingers. Most don't. An atypical Merrill Lynch computer jock keeps a 360-hp speedboat in Westport, Connecticut. This appears to embarrass him, and he blusters, "That's not who I am, and if you don't tell me right now that you're not going to put it in the article, I'm going to have to get serious...
...most of the new jock cinema, there is plenty of triumph but not much craft. Indeed, these movies are basically the same movie, with plots from Horatio Alger and psychology from Freud for Beginners. The story, almost inevitably, goes like this...
...players, or get to play for a championship, or cinch the game with a last-second score? Hoop Dreams notes that of the 50,000 or so gifted kids playing high school basketball each year, 14,000 play in college, and only 25 reach the NBA. Even a star jock -- Charles Barkley, Ernie Banks, O.J. Simpson -- may never be "a champion...