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...huge Midwestern agricultural college where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," an inventor moos after suffering a "brain attack" and secretaries sell Amway products by telephone. "As jaunty and straightforward as its title, 'Moo' allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym," saysTIME critic Pico Iyer. "It is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work...
...necks, wrestling them to the ground. Or Jamie, who will randomly lie down on the field during scrimmages and refuse to play. And there's Max--the only player on our team to draw a red card for inappropriate language--who a few weeks ago slipped away from the gym at the school where we were practicing and was caught by a janitor in a (previously locked) third-grade classroom, tearing down posters and overturning desks. He's currently serving a two-week suspension from practice (without...
...think its just the beginning," Butler said. "I made the choice of Harvard over a scholarship and a lot of recruits have made the same decision after me. We haven't had the gym this packed since I've been here...
...Turns out, slackers make great lovers, if for no other reason than that they have nowhere else to be. They aren't rushing off to the gym or returning to the field, tired and depleted...
...they're getting is a gym membership and alibrary card," he said. "They're paying theirsalary back to the university. It doesn't happenalmost anywhere else...