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...measure to see how you've improved as a person," she says, before describing her experiments with various training methods and diets that have not only enhanced her sailing but her well-being. In the beginning, she says, the driving force for knowledge and training was always to peak at Olympics time; now, as she contemplates life away from competition, the lessons she learns from yoga, for instance, are incorporated into her everyday existence. While age has brought her calm, all but removing the fear of failure that pervaded her 20s, it has made Kendall's body more vulnerable...
...dark-hued Anna in the 1996 Broadway revival of "The King and I." Here she uses her kabuki face to all manner of deadpan delight, then goes into giddy spasms in the dance numbers. She's Buster Keaton in repose, Diane Keaton in motion. Her and the show's peak moment comes when she reluctantly teaches the conga to six randy sailors from the Brazilian Navy. The number, which in seven or eight minutes expands into barely controlled musical and sexual anarchy, is so irresistibly infectious, it's a wonder the audience doesn't form a conga line on 45th...
...last fall, Harvard’s in-house security force had dwindled from a peak of 122 in the late 1980s to a mere 17. By early spring, the number of unionized security guards fell to seven, and on June 30, when they will trade in their Harvard uniforms for company garb from Allied Security, their breed will be completely extinct...
...rolled around, though, a group of students opened the doors to a toga party they hoped would put one of Harvard’s least popular Houses on the map. A party in South House, now part of Cabot, held in November 1978 carried the toga craze to its peak on campus, drawing throngs of students—and troupes of police officers—to the southern edge of the Quad for what became the most notorious weekend of the year...
...recalls the younger Kim. The son did a lot more than that. At the time, office workers were no longer buying the polyester blouses the family company, Protrend, churned out. Sales were tumbling 50% every year. What's more, the father had invested in real estate during a market peak, and as a result the company shouldered $10 million in debt. Today Peter Kim, 33, is CEO of a debt-free, $15 million-a-year business. In 1999 he launched Drunknmunky, an Asian-influenced men's street-wear line that pulls in the bulk of the company's revenue. Battling...