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Every fall, I see a paradoxical syndrome particularly prevalent among Harvard students: in public, a know-it-all swagger; in private, a secret concern that they are admissions errors...
Before you can teach a quarterback to run, you have to school him in the swagger. Lucky for ADAM SANDLER, who stars in next year's remake of 1974's football-in-prison film The Longest Yard, his coach is Hollywood's most beloved jock, BURT REYNOLDS. "What I told Adam is, 'Get a walk,'" says Reynolds, who played the QB inmate in the original. "A quarterback walk is like a cop walk, where you stride up there, and before you even tell the guy to roll the window down, he knows he's in deep trouble." With a cast...
...whole, the Americans were wisely swagger free, though the beach-volleyball duo Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs celebrated their bronze medal as if they had just liberated France. In fact, their win came over an Australian team whose top player reinjured her shoulder during the match, forcing her to serve underhand. But the most egregious celebration of the Games was by Swedish triple jumper Christian Olsson, whose oblivious victory lap was so lengthy that it interrupted the medal ceremony for the 1,500-m wheelchair race. Thanks for taking the pressure off, Christian. --With reporting by Jeff Chu, Sean Gregory...
...Bostonian. His apparent aloofness is actually an antique form of New England propriety. His reluctance to wear his religious faith on his sleeve is part of this ethos, as is his formal, hortatory Sunday-sermon speaking style. A strong sense of honor comes with the territory, a discomfort with swagger and braggadocio. "I once was with Kerry watching Bob Dole on television," recalls David Wade, an aide who is usually found in Kerry's immediate proximity. "Someone was asking Dole about how he was wounded in World War II. Dole wouldn't do it. He said, 'You just...
Voters do seem to like action-hero swagger, but that's not always the forte of left-leaning stars...