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...while the spitting incident made national news, inspiring damning op-ed pieces across the land - Denver's Rocky Mountain News said the incident proves that "standards for personal behavior have been lowered so far that the bar's in the dirt" - coverage of these more typical Alomar activities has been sporadic at best. The image of Alomar spitting, a brief transgression that occurred in a moment of rage, appears to be what will endure...
Everything is gloriously choreographed in Woo's trademark fast-action, slo-mo moves, including a motorcycle joust, a car tango and a heart-stopping Cruise duet with a mountain. (He did most of his own stunts. And Newton did, well, some of hers.) "Yes, it's fun! It's understandable!" says Newton, speaking in exclamation marks as she gently pokes fun at the first M:I. "And it's uncontroversial!" she adds with relief...
...most surprising thing about the future is this: Twenty years after Harvard, the state of your brain matters a lot more than the state of your resume. Some workaholic students emerged in the spring of my senior year looking like Charlton Heston after he comes down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments--burned out and still smoking, clutching a Hoopes Prize instead of stone tablets. Still today (the future), these people have the dynamism and social warmth of a strep throat culture...
...like it. I love it!" exclaimed Handy when she saw the Green Mountain sugar maple. "It's my very own tree...
...between two politicians since the last cold war summit was almost derailed by a 14-year-old boy. Just two days before John McCain and George W. Bush were scheduled to make official their detente, the Texas Governor placed an ice-breaking phone call to the Arizona Senator's mountain retreat. He reached Jack McCain. Dad's outside, said the teenager. Could the Republican nominee call back later? No big deal. Back to Game Boy. Jack promptly forgot about the call and never told his father. "I wanted to throttle him," McCain laughs now. Three hours later, Bush called again...