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...themselves talking. "Tatum and Ryan are going to be late, so I called Warren, Diane, and Misha," I heard Mick once tell our friend Reggie. "What about Jodie, Sissela, Derek, Archie, Zubin, Roman and Nastassia?" Bianca managed to reply. It was about then that Fellini and Marcello walked in. Rico and I have never been able to stay in the same room for longer than it takes to see what the other is wearing, so I left hastily...
...court, Knight likewise favors nose-to-nose confrontation. During the 1979 Pan American Games in Puerto Rico, Knight got into a fight with a policeman, then compounded his legal woes and embarrassed the U.S. team by saying: "The only thing they know how to do is grow bananas." Subsequently he attempted to justify an attack on a sportswriter by explaining: "I thought you were Spanish." In his quest to replace Woody Hayes as the raging bull of college athletics, Knight has repeatedly humiliated his team in public and once grabbed an erring player and threw him onto the bench during...
Vassallo, now residing in Miami with his mother and two younger brothers, began his swimming career with Club Deportivo de Ponce in his native Puerto Rico, where he lived until he was 11. Now, he is the most successful swimmer ever from that Caribbean island...
Vassallo's father--who was hit by a car and killed a few years ago when crossing a Miami street--decided to move his family to Florida from Ponce, the largest city in southern Puerto Rico, for two reasons: He wanted to provide his sons with an opportunity to become fluent in English, and he was looking for a swim club that would develop their aquatic skills. At that time Puerto Rico did not provide the competition that the rapidly improving Vassallo brothers needed...
...little nervous about swimming in Puerto Rico, a little unsure how the people would like me. My father left partly because the teams there didn't provide what we needed, and so when I went back for the United States I didn't know what to expect. They were great. Once I got there I knew I wanted to swim super fast for the people and my family." Vassallo said...