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Raquel Welch: The Goddess Factor
"I think I was always more intimidated by my image than anyone else," Raquel Welch admits with a wry laugh. "I mean, there's a tremendous loss of self, because you really are in a …
Betting On the Ring
Fight fans recall November 9, 1996, as the night Mike Tyson lost his title to Evander Holyfield. It was an ugly battle at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, during which Holyfield and …
Breaking the Rules
"Wear a navy suit, a plain white shirt and a striped tie (mostly red please)\. Accessorize with black shoes, socks and belt." Sometime early in life you probably received …
Look-Alike Links
Scotland's famed Postage Stamp is the shortest hole on the British Open rota, a par-3 playing just 126 yards from the tips. Nonetheless, it is one of the greatest holes in golf, …
Photo Finish
No question about it -- film is amazing stuff. The roll you buy for a few bucks at any corner drugstore can reproduce what you see with exquisite detail. What's more, sophisticate…
Ragtops: Whoosh Fulfillment
The tires squeal as we blast through a hard right turn. Then another switchback, a solid wall of stone looming menacingly to our left, a steep drop to the canyon floor on the …
The Power Brokers of Sports
The tidy corner office looks much like every other office inside America Online's drearily antiseptic campus near Dulles Airport. Only the framed photos of Ted Leonsis with …
Insights: Culture
One thing you can say for certain about the army of amateur sports nuts commonly known as weekend warriors -- they've got balls. Lots and lots of balls. Softballs, baseballs, …
Insights: Indulgences
I'm not a gun guy. I've never shot anything. Any critter bigger than my shoe has nothing to fear from me. I mention this because I, ironically, was at an auction preview of …
Insights: Politics
If a biped is an animal that walks on two feet and a bicycle is a vehicle that operates on two wheels, what in the world is a bipartisan? No such creature exists. But in …
Insights: Sports
I have a dirty little professional secret: in more than a couple of decades of sportswriting, I have habitually performed mental body English against the Yankees and Notre Dame …
Thinking Globally
The only thing that's missing in George Glazer's incredibly cluttered Manhattan gallery is a warning sign for visitors to watch their step. Though the tall and rather large-framed …
Cigars
Taking the Time for a Good Smoke
Non-Cuban cigarmakers improve blends and cigars following boom years
Nicaragua's Power Leaf
The cigar world turns once again to the potent tobacco of Nicaragua
Special Times, Special Cigars
My husband, Brian, says he fell in love with me the first time he saw me fire up a Swisher Sweet. We were in college, sitting on logs that surrounded the smoldering embers of the …
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
The Tyranny of the Politically
America has reached a point where the basic rights of the majority are being curtailed because someone, somewhere is offended by something. Some of our new rules and regulations …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, I want to thank you and Mr. Douglas Doan for the article in the April issue about his homegrown tobacco. It has left a lasting impression on me. In this …