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...could pass another car on a bowling alley. And he obviously hasn't relaxed one r.p.m. on the track. "Trust me," he tells TIME, "when it's time to be aggressive, I can still be aggressive. I haven't forgotten how to do that." He won five of the tour's 26 regular races, and going into last weekend's race in Fort Worth, Texas, he had a 43-point lead in the Chase over a posse including Johnson, Biffle, Kyle Busch and veterans Rusty Wallace, 49, and Mark Martin, 46, who are on their last laps before retiring this...
...shouldn't surprise that Waugh batted better than he writes. His tour diaries have been bestsellers, but Out of My Comfort Zone reads like a compilation of these - a superdiary in which almost everything is deemed worth a mention. Waugh's probably never heard of Ernest Hemingway's theory of omission, which is basically that prose reads better when the obvious is left out. Hemingway would have choked on Waugh's cavalcade of superfluous adjectives, and on sentences like, "Failure can lead you into a dark abyss of gloom and depression." But then Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot...
...said. But his experience at Harvard was an exception, he said. He said he encountered “an element of rudeness and grossness” not sustained on any other campus.The Justice for Palestine organization invited Finkelstein to come to Harvard as part of his recent academic tour. One member introduced Finkelstein as someone who “says things that some people think should never be said at all.” “Our intention was to spark conversation,” wrote Justice for Palestine Co-Chair Erin E. Thomas...
...Adams Lower Common room, but the lecture had to be moved to Emerson 105 to accommodate a larger audience. Those who managed to penetrate the dense crowds were treated to a no-holds-barred discussion of the female orgasm. The presentation straddled several topics, ranging from a detailed anatomical tour (using a large velvet hand puppet) to a story about demonstrating female ejaculation for a crowd of awed gynecologists to an anecdote involving hands-free orgasms and a magnetic resonance imaging machine. Instead of instructing students to turn off their cell phones, Airs asked them to set their phones...
After all, this could not be Skip Gates’ grand farewell tour if he did not do exactly what he’s been doing since he got here 15 years ago: making faculty appointments. So the man went to work...