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...This is the second year in a row that we won the freshman eight,” lightweight captain Martin Eiermann said. “We knew from practice that they have a very fast boat. It’s a pretty motivated bunch...
Cloudy future aside, Blagojevich has a keen sense of the past. At the press conference following his impeachment, he bewildered observers by reciting a passage from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," and his memoir is sprinkled with references to the giants of history - from Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to Winston Churchill - and personal comparisons to figures as varied as Icarus and Martha Stewart. During an interview with TIME, he rattled off a passage from Teddy Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech at the Sorbonne in 1910, delivering the punch lines with a showman's flourish...
...gave you a music education too.) In the mid-'60s, he had a hit of his own: a dance record, Soupy Sales Sez Do the Mouse, whose song "The Mouse" ranks in the novelty-song category up or down there with John Zacherle's "Dinner with Drac" and Steve Martin's "King Tut." That got him a contract as a Motown recording artist. Didn't last long. (See TIME's 1965 article "The Simple Simon Pieman...
...George Martin, the Beatles’ producer, once said of George Harrison that he was “always there yet somewhat elusive.” The same could be said of Scott Kannberg.Kannberg was Pavement’s everpresent enigma, writing a couple of songs per album but without a readily discernible style or persona. His songs tended to be impenetrable as well; even his moniker, Spiral Stairs, was adopted in order to give the band an air of mystery. Spiral Stairs was always secondary to Stephen Malkmus, the chief songwriter and public face, but as the 1990s wore...
...When Martin A. Samuels was growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland, a house call from his pediatrician J.W. Epstein was a big deal...