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Four months ago, the baggy-jeans-and-snowboard crowd was cavorting in deep powder at this California ski resort, called Northstar-at-Tahoe. Many of the same folks are back on these 8,000-ft. peaks, today--hiking up the rough slopes, now covered with rocks, weeds and pinecones--to play a round of "extreme golf...
...South Central Los Angeles church to preach the gospel of school vouchers to a group of black ministers. He is introduced--by his own advance man--as "an instrument of God's hand, like Rosa Parks." Never mind that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune to "fix education." Moreover, he adds, "it won't cut into my lifestyle...
...Beatles' 1965 film "Help!" director Richard Lester sent the Liverpool boys down a ski slope with no more instruction than a push and a smiling, bald nod. They were lucky, after all, as all they had to do was ski a bit, fall over and writhe on the ground in rhythm to "Ticket to Ride...
...without a home hill to carry on a steady practice regimen, Harvard's Nordic and Alpine ski teams again found themselves at the bottom of the 12-team Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) while posting some impressive but scattered individual efforts...
...April 1997 1 - An untimely snow storm dumps two feet of snow on the Boston area, causing Governor William F. Weld '66 to declare a state of emergency. While the rest of the Bay State shuts down, Harvard's classes stay open, forcing some faculty members to ski their way to campus...