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...about 14-year-old Harry's first shave. It didn't help that what Harry had shaved was his head. It seems the young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining mane. When the Mirror learned of the botched job, it ran a computer-generated picture of what Harry might look like hairless. Objecting to an "intrusion" into...
...while doing it. In thisprocess she latches on to the iconoclastic rebelfigure of her cousin, who tried to exorcise thesame Back Bay demons in his Life Studies asStuart is trying to confront in My First CousinOnce Removed. Stuart admits that she is notwriting a lyric masterpiece on par with any ofLowell's work, but manages in her genealogicalspelunking to be simultaneously funny, scathingand meditative about her life as a Winslow andLowell...
...Nationals tournament, Gilchrist was on par with the best in the miniature golfing world. "The regulars are always there," Gilchrist remembers. "Tom Dixon, the best miniature golfer in the world, as he likes to call himself, shows up every year in his 18-wheeler, as do Tommy Thelin, the Swedish Miniature Golf Champ, Elmer Lawson, the man who decided to get married at the sixth hole of this particular course in 1997, as well as the group of middle-aged preppies, one of who, in response to compliment from me last year, stuck his nose up and said...
...par-72 course was close to 6,000 yards off the ladies' tee. The high scores reflected the lack of birdie opportunities and the challenging distance...
Broughton and Ghazal, coming off a sub-par day against Brown, fell behind 7-3, putting the team one game from elimination. But they fought back to tie the score and then take the lead 8-7. But they lost the next game and came up short in the tiebreaker, 7-5. The tiebreaker win allowed Yale to advance to the semifinals...