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Even if the smells triggered a strong desire to drink, I had long since learned ways to talk myself out of it--or find someone to help me do so. Like the 90-day drying-out period that turns out to parallel the brain's recovery cycle, such a strategy...
Raced off the Spanish port of Valencia, the 32nd America's Cup will be remembered as one of the finest. The Swiss won 5-2, which might not suggest that the best-of-nine series was all that close. In fact, it was exceptionally so, and its twists and tensions...
But it would be a harsh judge who condemned the crew's showing. "They made a few mistakes on the racetrack-probably a few more than Alinghi," says Craig Monk, a member of the Kiwis' America's Cup-winning teams of 1995 and 2000. "Alinghi are so experienced and they...
At that moment, I really loved the U.S., regardless of Enlightenment platitudes. We may be fat, loutish, and drunk, but more than anyone we know how to have fun. There is no stern Gallic conscience telling us, “One must not make fools of ourselves in public.?...
Many cultural idiosyncrasies are amusing. There is a veritable passion for public display of affection: if there’s a couple—in a theater, on the subway, at a Festa Junina—they are probably making out. There is a curious love for English words and...