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...from herbs picked along the way," says Geneva-based writer Paul Sochaczewski. He and a friend went with Zuppiroli on a seven-hour hike to La Tournette, a 2,300-m peak above Annecy, admired "views to die for," and saw meadows of Alpine flora and a herd of wild goats along the way. What a rocky-mountain high. www.a-different-view.com
...strummings of the stringed septet? Just to say the word ukulele forces a smile. The name is almost certainly Hawaiian?it allegedly comes from the islanders' word for "jumping flea," bestowed after a 19th century Portuguese sailor impressed locals with his instrument's capabilities. Marilyn Monroe ran wild with one in Some Like It Hot, British Prime Minister Tony Blair took one on his last summer vacation, and in 1946, British entertainer George Formby incensed South African apartheid architect Daniel Malan by refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered...
...Beastie Boys—the wild dudes from “Sabotage,” the greatest music video of all time, and frat-boy anthem “You Gotta Fight For Your Right to Party”—are classy activists for a free Tibet, in long-term relationships, and producing progressively less relevant material at a progressively slower clip...
...implication of the end is that all their wild-man behavior was just the actions of confused and talented young men looking for direction, which they have now found...
...games into the young 2006 season, the Harvard baseball team has its first win. Defeats at Florida and the New York Institute of Technology (5-4), where the Crimson (1-5) visited this weekend, had the team searching for relief. Showing itself both wild and hittable, the pitching staff did not receive any—until yesterday afternoon.Together, sophomore Brad Unger and senior Matt Brunnig pitched a three-hit shutout. In his four innings, Brunnig was perfect.“Brunnig was pretty awesome,” said sophomore hurler Shawn Haviland, who struggled on the mound in the series...