Word: worthington
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...cinematic stirrer of the female breast, Brief Encounter. But where his plays and films bear the whiff of a long-gone age, Coward's songs retain their vitality: the frisky list songs that display his wit (Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington) and the achingly tender ballads that reveal his unmatched capacity for genuine sentiment (If Love Were All, Someday I'll Find...
...field is just exploding," says Virginia psychologist Everett Worthington, director of the Templeton Foundation Campaign for Forgiveness Research. He should know. His organization, set up by mutual-fund magus Sir John Templeton, has distributed $5 million to scientists studying, among other things, forgiveness among chimpanzees and its physiological effects on the pulse and the sweat glands of humans. A number of psychotherapists are testifying that there is nothing like it for dissipating anger, mending marriages and banishing depression. Just a few years ago, says Robert Enright, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin and a pioneer in the scientific...
...could ill afford to abruptly abandon the sport. Moreover, Cup-related expenditures are tax-deductible. With market research showing waning interest in the event, a women's team was a way to do well by doing good. "The sport needed a shot in the arm," says coach Kimo Worthington. "It's boring to watch the same old guys going at it. The women make it interesting...
...women have been training in their San Diego boot camp since June -- six months longer than the men. Coach Worthington is hoping that the 10-hour days, which begin with one-armed pushups and a 105-min. weight-lifting and aerobic regime and continue with intensive tacking and jibing duels on Koch's two 1992 boats, will narrow the gap in strength and skill. "Men don't listen to coaches because their egos get in the way," he says. "But these women are so eager to learn. I get choked up thinking about how far they've come...
When Bill Clinton was phoning world leaders the day after he won the election, he made a point of placing a call, right after talking with Britain's John Major, to a farm in Worthington, Massachusetts. He wanted to thank Tony Lake, described by a campaign aide as the "heart and soul" of Clinton's foreign policy team, for orchestrating the strategy that managed to neutralize voters' concerns about Clinton's inexperience on the world stage. Characteristically, Lake was not hanging around Little Rock or jockeying for West Wing office space. He had already returned to his cows, his close...