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...little bit more serious. It would be nice to have a great tennis academy at Flushing Meadow [where the U.S. Open is played]. And then I kid around about the idea of politics on some level. TIME: You still seem pretty conflicted. Do you wish you had been nicer or maybe funnier? McENROE: Well, for sure funnier. I think that one of the reasons people relate to me is that they feel like they can see me as a human being, as a husband and a parent. TIME: How can men's tennis be made more interesting? Wooden racquets? McENROE...
...fellow classmates. And so we amass acquaintances at Harvard, thanks to a combination of tolerance, ambition and Cambridge-specific social demands. In an effort to survive in this cutthroat atmosphere, we keep our friends close but our enemies closer. Rumor has it that Harvard students get a lot nicer and a lot more tolerable once they graduate. Go figure—removed from this academically and socially competitive environment, we discover how lonely and miserable it is when you think you’re better than everyone else...
When I was in third grade I lost three coats in the same number of months. Each time I lost my jacket, my mother would buy me a nicer one because she thought I would take better care of it. Since I’ve gotten to college, I haven’t lost a single significant purchase. What’s the moral of the story? One could say I just proved Summers point: I care about the coats I paid for more than those my mother bought me. But that ignores the nuances of the parent-child fiscal...
...along with the guys. In a corporate culture in which deals are often closed over multiple martinis or glasses of Merlot, the lone sipper of club soda risks looking like a latter-day Carrie Nation. And while the feminist foremothers aimed to make men more like women--nicer, that is, and sober--today's alpha gals aspire to resemble the men, warts and hangovers included...
...exactly how the peacekeeping force will be paid for. As for American involvement, even under Rumsfeld's minimal plan, building and training an Afghan army will take time. "You're watching a sausage being made," says a senior U.S. official. Sausagemaking isn't pretty, but it sounds so much nicer than mission creep...