Word: taitt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last March, Chenoa Taitt, 29, and her boyfriend Manuel Goncalves, 28, took a trip to romantic Florence, Italy. They brought along Matt, a mutual friend and former colleague, and Bob, Taitt's roommate at the time. They also invited Stephanie, Taitt's best friend from junior high, and an-other former co-worker, TracyLynn. TracyLynn in turn asked her mother to join, as well as a friend, Charlene, who also brought her mom. Altogether, nine people departed from Illinois, New York and New Jersey to spend eight days at adjacent hotels in Florence. "It was a real mishmash of characters...
...Taitt, trips with friends are a way to combine vacation with camaraderie. "It maintains and even builds our friendships," she says. "This is a tradition I want to maintain. A lot of us are getting married in the next year; I want to be sure we don't grow apart." In fact, adds Taitt, who is now engaged to Goncalves, "I would take them on my honeymoon if I could...
...which doesn't include any of the training costs (from €14 per session, depending on where). The first lesson: taking a punch. More used to rhetorical jabs than any other kind, the men "screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt, whose two front teeth are gold set with diamonds. "In boxing, you can't flinch." Clearly, boxing appeals to some on a primal level. "I think, in a perverse way, there's a lot of suppressed macho tendencies coming out," says Kevin Mitchell, a sportswriter for the U.K.'s Observer weekly and author...