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YOU ARE FAMOUS FOR THE SEVEN-DIRTY-WORDS BROUHAHA. IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS. DOES IT SURPRISE YOU THAT THOSE WORDS ARE STILL FORBIDDEN? No. What has happened over the centuries is that a natural modesty that people have has been exploited by religion to be a kind of fear...
Compulsive list-keeping is the orderliness of the disorderly. I?m absent-minded; I lose videocassettes, books, film notes, my house keys and, occasionally, my mind. But I am a walking repository of baseball and box office statistics (my patron saints: Bill James and Art Murphy). I can name every...
This summer I worked as a counselor at a camp for gifted and talented middle and high school students—the kind of camp that many of us attended in our awkward youth. Students and counselors lived in a residence hall on a college campus, and to my surprise...
He was only unlikely because of illness, as the man Welch dubbed “Mr. Playoffs” had been unable to keep down any food leading up to Saturday’s game after catching a stomach virus. But that did not stop Cavanagh from playing, nor from...
Modesty is just one virtue of Air Force's surprising basketball team, which ended its season with a 22-6 record, ensuring it a postseason-tournament berth for the first time since 1962. Air Force hasn't even had a winning season since '78. One reason is its tough league...