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...hopes of creating sufficient controversy and getting enough media exposure to merit a lucrative endorsement deal. The concept of “team” is nearly dead, as American speed skaters have amply demonstrated this year. It’s nauseating, really. Sure, athletes are happy to pay lip-service to Olympic ideals, but in reality many only emerge from their cloistered, pampered existence in the Olympic village to attend hedonistic parties in the hopes of scoring off the field of competition, as well as on it. Have we finally given up the pretence of hoping that through...
...Handlebar Club of London, according to its website, has one major qualification: “a hirsute appendage of the upper lip, with graspable extremities.” At Harvard, Christopher S. Nabel ’08 possesses such a mustache, but his is not an effort of vanity—it’s one of practicality. Nabel, a member of the Harvard Nordic Ski Team, grew a beard to keep his face warm on the icy trails. “It’s really cool because it insulates your face,” he says. When Nabel?...
...identify the most flood-prone parts of town, where homeowners must obtain flood insurance. Until the maps come out, it's hard for people to calculate the cost of returning. Construction worker Mike Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says. "But if you drive around, you'll see nobody putting up Sheetrock or restoring houses." Plus there's one other major unknown. "Everyone is waiting...
...have to come home to my mother singing this song, which is no doubt what’s happening right now. I liked “Deliver Us From Eva.” I even liked “Headsprung.” But this time the lip-licking and ab-flexing just doesn’t cut it. LL needs to either control himself and stop recording or give Marley Marl another call. -J. Samuel Abbott
...like without him. And once you start down that line of inquiry, you come up with some surprising answers - ones that have an application beyond Britain's gray skies. The bald facts of the case are these: Blair will be succeeded by Brown, no matter that Labour politicians pay lip service to the idea of a leadership contest. But that doesn't guarantee Brown a long tenancy in Downing Street. If Labour loses the next election, David Cameron, 39, the new, fresh-faced leader of the opposition Conservative Party, will collect the keys to No. 10. In either case...