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...never devoured football like Peyton. Before college, Eli couldn't name all the teams in the Southeastern Conference, sacrilege for a Louisiana schoolboy. He even has trouble remembering the start times of his games. In high school, about 90 minutes before a big game, he called his mother Olivia at home. She thought something was wrong. He just wanted her to tape Seinfeld. Eli is also more culturally ambitious than the average NFL quarterback with a $20 million signing bonus. He's a budding oenophile and likes to scout antiques, which could make him the only NFL quarterback adept...
...tale to tell. In his latest novel, Guapa de Cara (A Pretty Face), published in Spain last year with an English translation due in early 2007, a dead author tries to find her murderer. Sounds like a job for Carlos Clot, though the hero in this case is a schoolboy who leaves the pages of a children's book to ? ah, but we're getting ahead of the story...
...wouldn’t do what he did,” said Republican candidate Michael Petelka. “But then again I went to Fordham, he went to Harvard. I have a lot of this Catholic-schoolboy stuff...
...pure soul surfing for most of them," says David Boardman, an Australian staying at the resort. For the idle Liava'a, it was friends' involvement in the sport and their brightly colored surfing magazines that sparked his interest. Having had two serious knee injuries playing rugby as a schoolboy, he appreciates how surfing can provide equal or greater thrills without rugby's bone-jarring collisions. "I love it," he says. "It is fun for hours...
...Arab world that the U.S. not only does not share but too often fails to understand. Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, the Arch-bishop of Paris, points out that the French have a "fascination and aversion" toward the Arabs. "It goes back even to Poitiers, which, as every French schoolboy learns, was where Charles Martel stopped the Arab conquest of Europe in 732." Lustiger could have added that Europeans also have a way of becoming mired in their own history to the point of paralysis...