Word: slackers
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...hasten to claim, if defensively, that this isn't mere jingoism, though it does involve the U.S. effort). American athletes, who won an astonishing number of medals, came from Florida, New England, Washington State, Southern California and all points in between. They included slacker dudes on snowboards and distinguished veterans like the magnificent speed-skater Chris Witty, who fought through a pre-Olympics bout of mononucleosis to set a world record at 1,000 meters. They brought American flavoring to such traditional sports as figure and speed skating, and red, white and blue pizzazz to the newer events...
...complaints. "That's short track." Third, he congratulated Bradbury as the rightful winner. Fourth, he taped up his stitched-up leg - treated in the interim by none other than Eric Heiden, living speed skate legend and this year's team doctor - and proved that even this slacker generation can spit nails and get back on the track. Fifth, he smiled and kept smiling. Sixth, he was - very evidently and very consistently - completely genuine. This guy is Favre, he's Agassi, he's Tiger, he's Namath. This guy's the goods...
Byrnes, who graduated from KSG in 1991, has an impressive slacker resume to rival Ferris Bueller’s. During a four-year stint as head speechwriter for former Mass. Gov. William F. Weld ’66, Byrnes “worked” mornings and spent afternoons drinking and playing on a dart team at Drumlins, a bar on Mass. Ave. recently rechristened People’s Republik...
...their slacker-lawyer handbook, the work-averse authors include tips on how to obtain reading summaries and avoid classes with mandatory attendance. Still, Marquart and Byrnes are pleased with the way they spent their sizable tuition. “I would recommend law school to anyone,” Byrnes says. “It was a great three-year vacation?...
Fastow was never considered a big man on campus, not even at his suburban New Jersey high school. A teacher there remembers Fastow only as a slacker who tried to talk him into raising his grades. Hardly anyone at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management can even recall him from his years as an M.B.A. student. The response is similar at Tufts, where he studied Chinese and economics as an undergrad and played a little trombone and tennis on the side. Most Enron employees didn't know who he was until relatively recently. As head of Enron Capital Management...