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Would you rather be a boss or a totally awesome wingman? I'm really a team player. My nightmare would be Cast Away...
...stayer. At 51, he's the nice guy who successfully runs ad sales for a sports magazine. There's no good reason--other than heedless youth worship--for the clueless Carter to replace steady Dan when the soulless multinational Globecom buys his publication and demotes him to playing "wingman" to Carter...
...Vietnam-style quagmire. “Pretty soon I was up to my shoulders in the swamp with no exit strategy,” said Jamal B. Rusk ’04 of a Saturday night encounter with Patel. Rusk was saved only when wingman Paul K. Marlow ’04 boated upriver and terminated the conversation with extreme prejudice?...
...there were plenty of those kinds of surprises during Rogus’ rookie season at Harvard. The 6’4 wingman got off the bench in only eight games and didn’t see more than three minutes in any of them. He finished just 2-for-13 on threes for the year...
...home runs, his astronomical on-base percentage of .483. They recalled his military heroism. He interrupted his career for nearly five years to fly for the Navy in World War II and 39 combat missions for the Marines in the Korean War (he was John Glenn's wingman). And they cited Williams' two Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards--but, really, he deserved more...