Word: spirits
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...coincidence that Miranda graduated from Harvard Law School. She no doubt carries the Harvard burden--that of career ambition complicated by the desire to be risqu, sexy and fun--but she also wears it exceptionally well. Miranda's feisty, self-confident and independent spirit helps justify our obsessions with sex, smoking, shoes or success. Choose your vice--or, as is the case with most of us--your combination of them...
...Darling Harbour, more than 50 people from all over the world have congregated under a white tarpaulin to talk pins and do deals. For many, this is a biennial reunion: They turn up at every Summer and Winter Games. It's also where their version of the competitive Olympic spirit kicks in. Bud Kling, a 53-year-old tennis coach from Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been to six Games and has more than 20,000 pins, which cover his office walls and sparkle in custom-made display cabinets. A fellow trader comes up to gloat, having snapped up a sought...
...think Penn is a more exciting place, with a much more entrepreneurial spirit, and I would not leave here for Harvard," Rodin told the newspaper...
...some of that "Olympic Spirit" has been lost since the Cold War went the way of the dinosaur...
...Better yet, Moussambani was being feted as a hero. The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that he exhibited the true Olympic spirit, not once using the phrase "ballsy hucksterism." The "Today" show did an interview; the Olympic Committee took him to lunch and put him on a postcard; Speedo bought him a uniform. The way I saw it, Moussambani was more than a hero; he was a name I could put on my expense account. So last Friday I offered to take him to 41, one of the most expensive restaurants in Sydney. He accepted, then called later...