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...government has often tried to domesticate the Masai, to get them to give up the path of the warrior. Some years ago, a colonial district officer named Clarence Buxton decided to try to substitute manly sports for cattle raiding. He conceived the idea of encouraging Masai warriors to play polo while mounted on donkeys. The plan...
Copycat names (Oakland Raiders, Oakland Invaders) are also popular. After the New York Mets came the football Jets, basketball Nets, the team-tennis Sets and the Off-Track Betting Bets (known locally as the Debts). There was even some loose talk of a water-polo squad to be known, inevitably, as the Wets, and a women's basketball team, the Pets. This sort of secondhand glory is an old story in sports, dating back at least to football's Detroit Lions' and Chicago Bears' attempting to identify with the established baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Another kind...
...Davis. The secretive Denver oilman, 61, submitted the winning bid of about $135 million to Boesky's wife Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. The sisters have not spoken in years, partly because Seema, who held 52% of the property, and Ivan refused Muriel a private table at the Polo Lounge, the hotel's celebrity watering hole. The star-struck Davis, who once owned 20th Century- Fox, says he will refurbish the 260-room hotel for an additional $40 million...
...Some friends of mine on the women's ice hockey team told me about their tailgate, and the same with the men's water polo team. As a matter of fact, I just stocked up for my own tailgate," said Eliot House resident Harry J. Hjardemaal '89. "Just in case everyone else isn't wasted, I'll be wasted for them...
They took ski trips to Vail, Colo., and gambling junkets to Las Vegas. They played polo together and lived in luxury condominiums in fashionable West Los Angeles. The Billionaire Boys Club was a group of about 30 rich kids who were out to have fun and get richer, but authorities say their lavish life-style and freewheeling investment philosophy soon led some members to swindles and violence. In Santa Monica last week, the B.B.C.'s compelling but manipulative founder, Joe Hunt, watched as jury selection began for his trial on murder charges, which could put him on death...