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...planning to go all week, with a vengeance, but I did a pretty good job of taking care of myself…. I did get many what I call UPIs, unidentified party injuries. I came home with these bruises…The coolest thing ever were the parties thrown by Sports Illustrated. They were at the biggest club in Athens, right on the beach, huge. There were like five bars and a swimming pool, which was interesting because drunk people and a swimming pool is not a good combination. Completely open bar, and it was one of those very exclusive...
Though an owner’s lockout has thrown the upcoming season and the National Hockey League’s long-term viability as a professional enterprise in North America into serious question, neither Welch nor any of his teammates who have been drafted by big league clubs are abandoning their dreams of a career in the ice hockey business...
...current of campaign politics whirls and eddies around the military service of the candidates, the ongoing conflict in Iraq—already raising specters of Vietnam—has resurrected yet another ghost of that era: the military draft. Specifically, focus has suddenly been thrown to the Universal National Service Act of 2003 (HR163), which, among other things, could be used to reinstate a military draft. Despite gaining its notoriety for that possibility, HR163 isn’t merely a “draft” at all. It’s a plan for indentured servitude to the President...
...Early in the trip she bonds with another woman, Helena, who seems as troubled as she. But as the trip progresses, Helena becomes increasingly manic and psychotic, forcing Sarah and the tour guides to figure out how to manage Helena back to the States before she gets arrested and thrown into a Mexican mental hospital. During this ordeal, Sarah discovers a part of herself that she didn't know was there. A dramatic, moving and unusual sort of travel tale, it leaves out the details of physical places and instead concentrates on two character's very different movement from...
...lurking around in his, a fact that’s further reflected in his work, for better or worse. We went on to chat for a solid two hours, riffing on his career in cinema, his views on Hollywood and his personal life, with plenty of comi-tragic anecdotes thrown...