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...quality-lit" (Southern's phrase) mag "the Paris Review" to "Puritan" (the adult publication that was so explicit it was sold shrink-wrapped). Both books fill a significant void, offering evidence that Southern remained a potent, wildly creative scribe during his last 25 years on this planet. His skill in career-planning never matched his consummate wit and imagination (in fact he was a dismal dealmaker), but at least now his "invisible" years have yielded a number of characteristically strange and amusing stories, articles, and anecdotes...
People who make deals for a living have always fascinated me. High stakes and chutzpah--that's the ticket. Yet beyond the brass, many successful dealmakers possess an enviable skill set--vision, confidence, perseverance, focus, even empathy. Such qualities are the backbone of lasting success in any field, and to the extent they can be learned, we should all crave input. In A Passion to Win (Simon & Schuster), by Sumner Redstone with Peter Knobler, we go to school alongside one of the best. Redstone, a Boston nobody, took over his father's fledgling movie-theater operation and built it into...
...Never was the emotion more evident than during the Feb. 3 face-off with Trinity, when the greatest rivalry in collegiate squash lived up to all expectations. A standing room only crowd at Barnaby Courts was treated to an exhibition of individual skill, team comraderie, and first-class sportsmanship...
...that challenge, perhaps now Brown has earned the skill to outwit, outlast and out survive...
...walk-ons with no sailing experience. One of the most successful teams at Harvard has won two of three National Championship races this year, only they have done their winning so quietly that few have noticed. The Harvard sailing team is a study in just how far hard work, skill, cooperation and camaraderie can take...