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...Club was always small, secretive, and exclusive, with only 25 members at its peak. In The Club’s early days, most of the members had a nickname, few of which exuded the grace of the founders’ choices: “Pussy,” “Bossy Calf,” “Goat!,” and “The Lady Dodo.” There was no “punch” process; girls were informed of their “in” status and were expected...
...duty sportswriter is to convince some people, usually women, that there are qualities to be admired in certain celebrated athletes. Watching, say, Lleyton Hewitt, many struggle to see past the scowling and the obnoxious self-exhortations to the traits that lifted a little trier to the peak of tennis. While most Australians preferred Steve Waugh to Hewitt, many couldn't warm to the cricketer, either. Grim and prickly, Waugh eschewed elegance for efficiency and good manners for a competitive edge. To his eternal credit, he took time out from his sport to mingle with India's poor and sick...
...usually found getting Man of the Year interviews, even under deadline pressure, to be fairly simple. This year we tested that finding. For 1993's Men of the Year issue, we needed to get four interviews -- all four of them with world leaders; all four of them at peak, frantically busy moments in their lives; and all four of them in about a week. On Dec. 7, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger and managing editor Jim Gaines met over dinner in Oslo, where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were to receive their Nobel Peace Prizes three days later...
...maturing away from the juvenile swashbuckling action of “Pirates of the Caribbean” (it was filmed in a break while finishing that trilogy), but old habits die hard, and “The Weather Man” is peppered with violence. At the peak of his stress, Spritz slaps Noreen’s new boyfriend across the face with his gloves in an impulsive parody of bygone gentlemanly honor. Though primarily comic, this moment reflects the film’s general atmosphere of nostalgia incarnated in Spritz’s father, Robert. Verbinski makes a quiet...
Clannish athletes are not usually credited with strengthening the university community, but sometimes pigs fly. So effective have their coups d’ état of the Eliot and Lowell House dining halls been that both Houses have been forced to impose restrictions on non-residents during peak hours; a resident may invite one guest during traffic hours. Currently, Quincy is the only desirable River House that is restriction-less (at least for upperclassmen), and that domino too shall soon fall...