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...last moment I shortened my stride and hit the board with a pounding right foot. I felt my body rise in the air, and I scissors-kicked at the peak of it, flying 15, then 20, then 25 ft. through the air?straining closer and closer to the towel. And then I landed?past...
...fancy that loathsomely rich, ridiculous and powerful holders of old names and money have for decades maintained this refuge (in a region unspecified, but resembling the Adirondacks) on the model of a turn-of-the-century prep school: no women, food fights at table, silly songs, horseplay of the towel-snapping kind. One respected judge wears dresses here; another member wears nothing at all. Suddenly there is a murder, then another, then ... Flynn is invited to investigate. Who is expunging all of these parasites? While the venerable members scurry about hiding corpses, Flynn puzzles it through, though the murders themselves...
Grace and Zoeller win the towel wavers' U.S. Open
...shot making at Winged Foot last week was only remarkable, the towel waving memorable. Fuzzy Zoeller signaled mock surrender to Greg Norman at the fieriest moment of a U.S. Open Sunday, and when the heat was off in their 18-hole playoff the following day, Norman waved back. Golf may be "a rude game," as Zoeller says, but golfers almost unfailingly display a grace under pressure that used to be the definition of heroism. From Yankee Stadium to Wimbledon, the phrase has pretty much abandoned sport...
...paid us a visit, accompanied by three Islamic guards in military fatigues. I was dressed in black, but the Iranians insisted that a veil of some sort be found for me. There was nothing suitable on board. Finally, the captain rushed to his bathroom and returnedwith a white bath towel, which I had to struggle to keep over my head during the interview. When asked what Iran would do if Iraq destroyed Kharg Island, as it has threatened to do if faced with an Iranian ground offensive, our visitor said, "They don't understand the power we have...