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Many insiders marvel at Hermann's touch for managing high-strung talent. With Galliano, she knew when to challenge and when to back off. So after he showed her samples of shockingly immodest miniskirts and transparent tops, Hermann says, she nudged him into lining them. But after 9/11, when Galliano created a collection in camouflage, Hermann didn't comment?and the public loved...
...sports teams can have recorded as many firsts in a season as Formula One's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. After motorsport's top competition got underway in March, Lewis Hamilton, the English team's rookie driver, strung together five podium finishes in a row, the best start to a season by any debutant driver. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag. And following two more Grand Prix wins, Hamilton and his Spanish teammate - current World Champion Fernando Alonso - head into this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in the top two slots in the drivers...
...release a mule from its halter so that it might "regain its own way of life." And he inspired not fear, but affection. During his long trips abroad, friends wrote him letters professing that they were "seized by a marvelous desire" to see him, and reporting that his highly strung wife couldn't bear their separation: "Good Lord, there is no way to get her to calm down and take comfort...
This is tough medicine to swallow for a college student who might rank sloth well above adultery or theft on the scale of mortal sins. Summer, Harvard-style, has given up its childhood role as vacation; it has even shaken off its role at lower-strung colleges as interruption. It has become an individually-made replica of Harvard itself, as if we all grow so lonely of Cambridge’s stresses during our three months away that we must rebuild them wholesale by some facsimile. Summertime is so indistinguishable from the other nine months of our lives that...
...return, they give Halo most of their waking hours, which vastly outnumber their sleeping ones. For the past few months, shifts at Bungie have run from 6 in the morning till 2 in the morning. One manager confessed that he was so strung out on caffeine, he had to drink a Diet Coke just so he could kill his cravings enough to fall asleep. The Bungies bring a grinding, jeweler's meticulousness to what most people consider an unhealthy amusement for children. To give me an idea of the level of detail (which is a term of art at Bungie...