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...says a good newspaper column has to be dull? Not this provocative punster and old Nixonian whose contrarian views and nose for news enliven the New York Times...
...Extremes of Emotion. If interviewers complement you, don't jump into their arms in joy. If interviewers tell jokes, don't laugh so hard that you break furniture in the office. If interviewers get sentimental, don't cry so much you need to wipe your nose on your clothes...
...Excessive Self-Congratulation. Although your mother and father may indeed be very proud of you for blowing your nose, don't expect your interviewer to wax ecstatic. Don't peer into your kleenex and announce, "That was a good one!" Above all, don't attempt to continue a conversation while your fingers are anywhere in the general vicinity of your nostrils...
Some people were surprised after the end of the 1988 season when Gicewicz was named the captain for the 1989 squad. First, because he was a nose tackle. On the gridiron, the nose tackle position is about as glamorous as working the drive-thru shift at a local McDonald's. When you talk football, you mean running backs, quarterbacks and wide receivers. Nose tackles just get their uniforms dirty...
...doing a story on Yale's wishbone offense, and I asked Gicewicz how Harvard would defend against it. The usual response would have been: "We just have to dig in and play our best." Instead, Gicewicz started talking about blocking schemes and how offensive linemen like to take down nose tackles in a wishbone formation. Whoa...