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...despite defeating Cornell, 17-10. The men were simply overmatched in the meet against the Lions, with the lone close call coming in a 5-4 foil defeat. Junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter notched one of the most impressive wins of the day, defeating Columbia sophomore and foilist Kurt Getz, one of the best in the country. Itameri-Kinter was honored for his performance with first team All-Ivy accolades. The men’s squad had an additional All-Ivy selection in the form of senior epee fencer Teddy Sherrill, whose 8-1 first-weekend performance had left...
...last time pop music was dealt this card, it went by the name Kurt Cobain, another lower-middle-class kid for whom being messed up was a source of creativity and, eventually, the killer of it too. Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers. No matter how true her music feels, it's hard to tell the difference between pain and performance and impossible to guess how approval reinforces her self-perception...
Born in 1979 in Perth, Australia, he told me that he grew up playing hockey with his dad and his sisters. And his heroes were musicians. "Kurt Cobain and Bono," he said. "I guess they were about the only heroes I really had. I wasn't raised on movies." He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19, and fame came very quickly, including a big break in the 2000 movie The Patriot co-starring fellow Aussie Mel Gibson. Celebrity had its discontents, though he found solace with the actress Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda. But he complained...
...Legacies of Those We Lost Your farewell section [Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008] was a touching way to end the year. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut left us with wonderful literature, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a so-called notable personality, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She became a bigger-than-life caricature of herself, a real-life burlesque act because of the media. She should...
...Legacies of Those We Lost Your farewell section was a touching way to end the year [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut left us with wonderful literature, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a celebrity, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She should be pitied, not honored. Ray Schwartz, New York City...