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...goods. (The first bull to sign an autograph will make a killing.) "The bulls should be more famous than us," says two-time champ Adriano Moraes. "They're better athletes." They also have better names, which reflect their personalities. Bodacious, a bull who died in 2000, was the Babe Ruth of bull riding, the sultan of cowboy swat. A bull named Ugly wasn't beauty-contest material, but in the arena he was a champ. This summer, one bull literally tore the pants off a handler before an event. The animal's nom de guerre...
...Point, Wis., for its annual town-wide 54-hr. trivia marathon. He hits trivia night in a Boston bar and kibitzes at a college quiz-bowl championship. He exhumes such trivia titans of yesteryear as John Timbs, the author of the 1856 best seller Things Not Generally Known, and Ruth Horowitz, the rebus-solving legend who dominated 20 straight episodes of Concentration in 1966. And of course Jennings gives us all the nerd-on-nerd action from his Jeopardy! stint, which he graciously chalks up to luck and good buzzer technique...
...well, though perhaps not so much camaraderie. There’s Summers-hating and terrificly-titled Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. And then there’s Summers-lovin’, aptly-titled Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse. It was Wisse who accused Summers’ vocal opponents—of whom Ryan was certainly one—of anti-Semitism after Larry was ousted in Februrary. Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on a wall during department meetings? Sixteen courses...
...guessing game that surrounds Harvard’s search for its 28th chief, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons is an oft-cited contender. But at Brown’s freshman orientation last month, Simmons told a crowd of parents that she intends to stay put in Providence...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse called Khatami “the world’s exemplar of intolerance,” noting his role in the Tehran University crackdown...