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Many women can tell the story of a friend or relative who looked at her and said, "If you really wanted to be married, you'd be married." The comment can sometimes slap like a wet towel, in part because it is true and in part because of its implicit message: You could have compromised, perhaps settled, and been among the married. And so, the logic follows, you have no one to blame but yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Husband? | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

Clayton’s opponent may have thrown in the towel because Santa Clara’s victory was already sealed at that point...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Falls Just Shy of Four-Win Trip | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...forced entry to his room, and it's unlikely that those responsible for his death took the time to disrobe the 1.85-m, 113-kg man before fleeing. Woolmer had apparently been comfortable enough to let his visitors into his room while he was unclothed, or perhaps wearing a towel before or after a shower. "I believe that it would be extremely difficult for a complete stranger to go into the hotel lobby, get into the lift, go to his room, and that he would open his room to a complete stranger and then be strangled and left naked," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Games | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...salaryman has followed the Seibu Lions since he was 8, back when his family lived near the team's stadium in Tokorozawa, a sleepy suburb 40 minutes west of Tokyo by train. Clad in a powder blue Lions jacket, with a Lions towel wrapped around his neck, Koike spends the entire game bobbing like a prizefighter in Seibu's official cheering section, where well-drilled fans in blue and white drum and sing personalized anthems every time a Lion comes to bat. One player is missing though--superstar pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who left for the Boston Red Sox this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saying Sayonara to a Superstar | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...School, ran around a speedway in his underwear in Talladega, was a shirtless Bible salesman on SNL, worked out bare chested in his office in Anchorman and ... you get the point. "In Blades we do a thing where I tell the story of my life"--wearing only a towel--"with my tattoos, but that's for story purposes." He's laughing now. "I'm trying to think. Do we do it in Semi-Pro? No, I think I'm fine. Oh, there's one photo of me with a basketball in front of my crotch, just lying on a bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell: Brilliant Idiot | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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