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With an on-court manner as rough as his tennis touch was refined, John McEnroe cemented his reputation as a man of many titles. There were those he won - a record 154 singles and doubles championships - and those he dished out, from "jerk" (very mild) to the more customary "f_____g a_____e." Fiery. In your face. Explosively perfectionistic. That was McEnroe then, and that's still McEnroe now. Maturity - and anger-management therapy - have mellowed the 43-year-old tennis great's legendary temper, but still, he says, "there's probably times every day where I feel like...
...only two major airlines earning a profit before Sept. 11 (the other was Southwest Airlines), and Continental in March became the first traditional hub-and-spoke carrier to report a return to pretax profit. Alas, the bottom line turned red again in April, and Bethune predicts more rough weather ahead if the majors don't "wise up"--that is, stop adding seats and start raising fares. "It's a challenging business, which some of us thrive on," says Bethune. "I mean it's crazy as s___. I like it because it's never, never, never static...
...stirring audiences around the world. Top bands from Central Europe are playing upwards of 100 foreign gigs a year. Filmmakers are hungry for their scores. Critics have likened the outpouring to the birth of jazz in the U.S. in the 1920s. Says Simon Broughton, co-editor of The Rough Guide to World Music: "The music does what music should do. It tears at your heartstrings and gets your blood racing." This summer Taraf de Haïdouks is moving on to the International Istanbul Jazz Festival (July 6). Fanfare Ciocarlia, a Romanian brass ensemble, will play France's Jazz...
Nyweide, who had endured a particularly rough outing the previous weekend against Dartmouth, turned in a three-hit shutout in the opener. In the second game, Sheffield—who had been a JV player, a midweek pitcher, a member of the right field platoon and finally a weekend starter—could call himself the winning pitcher in the series clincher...
...president, it was very encouraging that so many people came out without being punched,” she said in November. “It was very heartwarming and reassuring for me. It’s been a rough ride...