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Maybe it makes perfect sense that Steve Wynn would turn into the Mister Rogers of Las Vegas. Sitting in his new hotel in a red V-neck sweater and gray wool pants, Wynn, 63--famous for yelling at employees, taking up steer roping and accidentally shooting off his index finger in his office--is talking about building neighborhoods in his latest land of make-believe. Explaining that his hotel will be a mellow retreat, without the glitz and campy themes that have made him such a sensation in the past, Wynn breaks into a rendition of Bali Ha'ifrom South...
...That sort of led to saying, Well, if I'm already George Star Wars Lucas, then it doesn't make any difference what I do from now on. I've cleaned up the first three to the point where I am happy with them now. They may not be perfect, but they are as perfect as I can make them. I'm proud of the second three movies. People may not like them, but I'm proud of them. I never in a million years thought I could finish the whole story. In its course, I've done...
This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday--making macaroni and cheese, getting pulled over for speeding--and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it: "All morning I try to kill a fly in the kitchen,/ but it isn't ready...
...seven consecutive BCS national titles beginning in 2013—four of which are earned by Harvard, which lures recruits to Cambridge with a brand-new Astroturf stadium. The stretch is highlighted by the Crimson’s third title, in 2016, earned at the Rose Bowl, capping a perfect 13-0 campaign and marking the program’s first Tournament of the Roses title since...
Though Harvard handles its weaker schedule with relative ease, trading perfect seasons with Penn for the better part of a decade, neither program is permitted to participate in the Division III playoffs. Eventually, quality players like Ryan Fitzpatrick and Clifton Dawson stop coming to Cambridge and the Crimson’s performance declines, ultimately matching that of its Division III counterparts...