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...year, watched one of the least dramatic final rounds in the history of the British Open. They stayed for a glimpse of golfing puissance--and to see a reflection of themselves. In an era defined by placid prosperity and cross-cultural, NASDAQ-obsessed Generation Y geeks who went to Stanford, it is only a minor coincidence that the national icon is a 24-year-old multiracial golfer who "plays around in the market" and could be worth $1 billion by the time he's 30 and was geeky enough to be nicknamed Urkel by his college teammates--at Stanford...
...time he entered Stanford in 1994, Woods had won the first of his three straight U.S. Amateur titles, but there were volleyball players who were better known on campus. Woods loved it. "Anonymity was one of the best things about being at Stanford," he says. "I was sort of a lower-tier athlete." One college roommate, Yves Zinggeler, remembers that Woods "was a humorous guy who liked to have fun and go out on weekends"; he dated a couple of women, but "he wasn't a skirt chaser." He watched The Simpsons religiously and cued up videotapes of PGA tournaments...
Looking back over the past few years, I genuinely regret missing out on what my friends at Stanford and Duke have had--not simply the championships and winning records (which Harvard actually has, though few of us seem to notice), but the feeling of shared pride and loyalty to your school that comes from a sense of community and support that can only begin at the highest levels of the administration. The reputation and legacy of this school can be almost overwhelming, and there need to be steps taken by the University to rekindle an excitement about our school, simply...
...need to remind Jenny Thompson of that. She is America's best sprint swimmer and the most decorated female swimmer of the 1990s. Yet there is a question mark that hovers over her record like an early morning fog at the Stanford University pool where she trains...
Swimming also provides a welcome release from her rigorous studies: she will enter Columbia University's medical school next fall. While she continues to train with Richard Quick, the masterly Stanford women's coach, she now makes her own schedule. For the past two winters, for example, she has spent part of the winter in swim-crazed Australia, hanging out with friends and working with a former Russian Olympic swim coach...