Word: olympian
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...Senate, there's a problem in being the Congressman Most Likely to Be Mistaken for a Page. You may no longer need a stentorian voice or mane of white hair to graduate to a seat in the American House of Lords, but a little gravitas, a bit of Olympian detachment or at least a few outsize personality quirks help. Hillary has the latter in spades and rock-star fame. And while Rudy Giuliani may have been too knee-in-the-groin nasty to attract all the anti-Hillary votes, the fresh-faced Lazio could be just too aw-shucks nice...
...season kicks into high gear, we’re still kicking ourselves for not scoring an invitation to the Senior Soiree. Redemption comes in the form of the fabled Keezer’s Dodecathlon: attending all 12 house formals in one fell swoop. The last person to attempt this Olympian feat drowned in an abyss of mixed punch and remixed pop. It can be done: provided you mind your...
...someone's garage trying to invent the next Mac. This is Microsoft's Red West campus, in the Olympian heights of Redmond, Wash. These sleep-deprived souls are software engineers--trained to write code, not dirty their hands with metalwork. Which explains why Angeloff has accidentally soldered the wrong pieces of circuitry together in one of the boxes. The engineers have been up so long on this frazzled assembly line because their boss--Bill Gates, a man whose tolerance for failure is minuscule--needs to demonstrate his company's tentative entry into the games-console market. "It's like...
...Gyorffy's success seems well-deserved, and Harvard is lucky to have this likely future Olympian here as a student. By all accounts, she is as excellent a person as she is an athlete...
...serious contender for his party's nomination. What is unfortunate, however, is that Bradley's decline in the polls stems more from a shift in public image rather than his stance on substantive policy issues. Bradley's unhurried and deliberate debating style--once characterized by pundits as a cerebral, "Olympian" calm--is now seen as a lack of enthusiasm for the presidential post. After his ill-timed responses to criticisms by his opponent, Vice President Al Gore '69, Bradley has been beleaguered by the "going negative" label...