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Although the nickname is oft attributed to a 1974 Sports Illustrated article entitled “Rude and Smooth and Fast,” Lowe recalls an earlier origin...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Still Smooth, Less Rude | 10/21/2003 | See Source »

...Different people tell you different things,” Lowe said. “The origin is a very simplistic outlook on life which is that certain things are either rude or they’re smooth. This really derived from some hockey players that I knew that lived in Eliot House in 1973. That was their view of the world. I kind of introduced it here with coxswain Dave Weinberg [’74], and we kind of introduced into the lexicon of the boathouse...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Still Smooth, Less Rude | 10/21/2003 | See Source »

Whether their parents are missionaries or managing directors, almost all expat kids have a moment when they realize that their adopted home means at least as much to them as their country of origin. For Daniel Welch, now a senior at the American School in Japan, it came when his family temporarily returned to Utah after 31/2 years in Tokyo. His new classmates never asked about his life abroad: "I would say I was from Japan and they wouldn't care." Welch had become - to use a phrase popularized by consultant David Pollock - a Third Culture Kid, one who inherited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooted To Nowhere | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...Scott did not return calls, but Mark Davis, a Sacramento attorney and Scott associate, did. Asked about Slusser's current connection with Earthco, Davis replied, "The answer is zero. Neither as a shareholder, officer--no capacity whatsoever." But Davis declined to discuss Slusser's earlier involvement, the nature or origin of Earthco's technology or how it has reduced American dependence on foreign oil. "That's really all I have to say," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Energy Scam | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Whether their parents are missionaries or managing directors, almost all expat kids have a moment when they realize that their adopted home means as much, if not more, to them than their country of origin. For Daniel Welch, now a senior at the American School in Japan, it came when his family temporarily returned to Utah after living in Tokyo for three-and-a-half years. "It wasn't big in the news, but just after I moved, there was a volcanic eruption in Miyakejima," says Daniel. "I'd taken a field trip there and I remembered the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooted to Nowhere | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

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