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A friend of mine once woke up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning in the spring to watch Harvard race, only to realize that the crews battle upstream for two kilometers--so that one can watch the start or end of a race, but never both. Crew is definitely...
Now pushing 60, Richard Serra is the John Henry, the steel-drivin' man, of American sculpture at the century's end. There are a few other sculptors of comparable distinction around--Martin Puryear comes to mind--but in the handling of heavy metal Serra has no peer; there, he is...
Yet wines from Chile--whose climate, soil and cheap labor are a viticulturist's paradise--are finally adding vintage to value, in the way that California wines did two decades ago. Chilean Cabernets, especially, are "softer than California and yet more accessible than Bordeaux," says Wine Spectator senior editor Thomas...
The way people die in caves is by going forward too fast, into wedges that trap them, rivers that drown them and mazes that defeat them until they give up or starve. The journey to what Bill Clinton called the "rock-bottom truth" feels now like a headlong descent, a...
McInerney's taste has also, amazingly, remained focused on the dazzle of glamour. This is a guy who's been married to a model and has lived with two others, and it still isn't out of his system. "I think for the moment I've exhausted my observations of...