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...athlete (he captained Mann's tennis team), though his parents never focused on that. They recall attending just one soccer game, the last of the season in his senior year, arriving just as Eliot was called for a penalty. "Free kick, they lost," his father says with a laugh. The parents concentrated on their children's intellectual side--in ways that made their friends snicker. One of the kids--Spitzer is the youngest of three--would be made responsible for leading a dinner discussion on a topic of the day. When they traveled, they would test the kids on what...
...Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual, its audience was meant to laugh at it. That's why its viewers, mostly young women, watched: they didn't aspire to be one of the 25 dewy-eyed dim-bos seeking their M.R.S. degree any more than your average young male Fear Factor viewer wants to eat earthworms...
...holding up their hands to be sworn in before Congress, Cooper's eyes well up with tears. She turns the picture over and says, "I don't ever want to see that again." Friends estimate that Cooper has lost close to 30 lbs. The other day she had to laugh when her skirt nearly fell off while she was talking to a colleague at the office. A safety pin saved...
...craft a viable reorganization plan for the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, involving $107 billion in assets. To generate real profit, he'll have to consider unloading its shrinking paging business and handing out even more pink slips. He also wants to turn the company into (don't laugh) a paragon of corporate governance--and is actually required to do so as part of his new contract, worth about $6 million annually in cash and stock. That should be a little easier now that the seven board members left over from Bernie Ebbers' free-spending days have just quit...
...Texas, plays in two bunco groups, is an alternate in a third and has become such a bunco enthusiast that she self-published Dice with Spice: A Bunco Cookbook, with recipes and menus for bunco parties. For her, playing bunco is "time away from being Mommy and wife, to laugh with the gals and have a good old time," she says. "I would take on another group, but my husband says I've used up my fun quotient for the month." Single women, weary of smoky bars and disappointing blind dates, enjoy the parties too. "For us single gals...