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Combining white Harvard men and hip-hop is a formula destined to surprise at the least. Witness Protection Program (WPP), an eight-man band of ’03 and ’04 graduates, used their unique angle as a sucker punch to “work against the institutional forces of the university,” according to vocalist Jacob Rubin. Performing hip-hop with live instruments, WPP members included MC Jacob Rubin ’03, MC Benny Peterson, drummer Peter Kennedy ’03, keyboardist Nicholas Britell ’04, bass David Sherman, Alan...
...station paid $4,500 to each school for the broadcasting rights. It was believed to be the first live telecast of a regular-season high school football game in Texas, and where it lacked polish (an assistant coach: "One thing we'd like to do is get that sucker in the end zone"), it made up in enthusiasm (the play-by-play announcer: "That'll make it third and a country mile!"). During the broadcast, you could have fired a cannon down the main streets of either town and not hit a living soul...
...schism between Woods and Mickelson dates back at least two years, to when Mickelson called Woods' Nike clubs "inferior." Woods boiled. "It was a little sucker punch," says Fred Funk, this year's Players-championship winner. "That creates a bit of animosity between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into...
...novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden of life after Sept. 11 and how it feels to be sucker-punched by an excitable creep...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...