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Pity the poor body. Since philosopher René Descartes uncoupled it from the mind in the 17th century, it has been second banana. Storytellers have fetishized the mind and exalted it as the locus of character and the self. The body has been along mainly for the ride ever since, the mind's sherpa...
...them to the elite Greenwich Polo Club, where they will enjoy a champagne reception and a buffet lunch.Around 4 p.m., they will take to the open grounds and situate themselves for an afternoon of laid-back Ivy League polo.There will be almost 70 ponies. But no college kids to ride them. That’s the whole point of the Ivy Cup Charity Polo Match, scheduled for Saturday, May 20th. It will pit alumni teams from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell against one another in the spirit of old school altruism and good-natured competition.The annual tournament...
...baseball player, since you are more or less doing the same thing for five straight months. And as a minor leaguer, a good portion of your routine inevitably rests atop eight big wheels. As I write this article I am sitting through one of our four bus rides this week. Our bus pulled out of the stadium in Lakewood, N.J. at about 10:30 p.m., and we are scheduled to arrive back in Ohio at around 6 a.m. Pulling an all-nighter on a tiny coach bus is nothing out of the ordinary in the minors.Bus rides from city...
...coach eulogizes: “Pre ran every race like it was his last. Well, this is his last. This is the Bell Lap for Steve Prefontaine.”While they probably won’t let us ride around the Yard in a hearse at graduation, we know how Pre feels. This is the Bell Lap for Chris and Chris. Thank you to everyone who supported the column, to all the guys who bought us drinks and all the girls who e-mailed us and made us believe that maybe we are no longer repellent to women...
Nonetheless, she takes her profession extremely seriously and she determined not to ride on her family’s name. “What was important is to prove to myself that I wasn’t being hired because I was Henry Fonda’s daughter, which is why I studied a technique so hard,” she says, sipping black coffee. “I wanted to be able to feel like I’m not a dilettante...