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...good chance to pick up its first win. The Gaels have struggled offensively during a five-game losing streak, scoring just four goals during that stretch. In its latest loss, they dropped a 2-1 decision to Air Force last Sunday despite dominating in shots (14-5) and corner kicks (8-1). St. Mary’s offensive struggles are welcome news for Harvard, which has also had trouble finding the back of the net. The Crimson picked up its first two goals of the season in its fourth game last weekend against Boston College. It’s been...
Back in the 1970s, when Texas politicians still drank, smoked and sparred in dark smoky bars, The Quorum Club was Austin's premier political watering hole. There at the big corner table, you'd find a cast of political characters drawn in bold Texas strokes-men with firm handshakes and loud laughs, men who had been nurtured by LBJ and knew politics, by and large, for that matter, mostly men. Most women in the room then were decorative. Except Ann Richards, the onetime Texas governor with the sharp tongue and quick wit, who died Wednesday...
...didn't hear the throaty laugh first, you'd pick up on the shock of white hair at the corner table when Austin was in high politics season. Richards, then nearly 50 after years of teaching school and raising a family of four, had carved her way into Texas politics via a seat on the Travis County Commission, not a high station but a strategically placed one in the capital city. Her political roots lay with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party; she had supported the campaigns of U.S. Senator Ralph Yarbrough and Sarah Weddington, the Austin lawyer...
...Democrats ruled Texas at the time, so much so that Republicans, the joke went, met in a phone booth. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock was the king of the corner table, the master of legislative budget matters. One night Bullock went on a roach-shooting rampage in the Quorum Club basement. By the next night, everyone had holstered their sidearms and recovered from their hangovers. And so it went night after night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school...
...determination is the underlying theme of all successful fashion shows these days. Watching DVF's show, I was reminded of a conversation with her over ten years ago at lunch. Curled up at a corner table at Cipriani, Von Furstenberg recounted the trials and humiliations of having sold her name in many licensing deals and trying to buy it back or close out the licensing agreements. It was 1993 and she had just moved back to New York from Paris where she had lived for a few years, not working in fashion. Now she was hoping to rebuild her business...