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...told me never to take methadone, I guess because I am so skinny? “Never take methadone,” were his exact words. I won’t reveal anymore of what the Mad Russian told me—I don’t want to spoil the program for any of you smokers out there—but I will offer this: back in 1999, a reporter asked him to explain his technique, and this is what he said: “If you never ate sushi, you cannot crave sushi. The French have an expression...
...Winners of their last two Ivy League games, the Harvard women’s field hockey team traveled to Princeton on Saturday to try and make it three in a row. Instead, they found a determined Tigers (8-6, 6-0 Ivy) squad which, unwilling to let the Crimson spoil its undefeated Ivy campaign, sent Harvard (2-13, 2-3 Ivy) home from the Class of 1952 Stadium with a 3-1 loss. The Crimson got off to an encouraging start. Less than 10 minutes into the game, Harvard received a goal from senior midfielder Aline Brown off a corner...
Leave it to Kim Jong Il to try to spoil a party he wasn't invited to. The reclusive North Korean leader's decision to test a nuclear device Monday morning may well have been timed to disrupt two landmark summit meetings between new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts in Beijing and Seoul. The test reportedly occurred as Abe was flying over the Korean peninsula, on his way from Beijing, where he spent Sunday, to Seoul. Yet in the short term, Pyongyang's provocation may have actually served to smooth the summits, giving the three estranged countries...
...DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield; in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub revue. He met Mansfield at a performance, where the impressed star is said to have told a waiter, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left...
BOXES AND CARTONS Bag-in-the-box containers can keep wines fresh for four to six weeks after they're opened, thanks to the vacuum-sealed bag inside that collapses as the wine is consumed, making it difficult for oxygen to get in and spoil what's left. Although box wines often come in 3-L sizes, equivalent to four bottles of wine, more convenient 1.5-L boxes are becoming available...