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Lacrosse, fencing, crew. All fine sports. But for most fans, they don’t hold a candle to baseball, football, and basketball. Yet, in what you could only call a counterintuitive move, another elite athletic recreation—squash—was envisioned as a portal to empower young people back in 1996, by Williams College and Harvard graduate, Greg Zaff. A former

John Nichols’ first sprint triathlon in 2005 didn’t go so swimmingly. “Horrible experience,” the Winnetkan recalls. “Rough. I was heavy, grossly out of shape … kind of an idiot. But I wanted to race again. I wanted to train properly for my next race.” Two years later, the former collegiate lacrosse and hockey player entered

Hear Katie Brickman’s life story (so far) and it plays out like a vintage film in Technicolor—complete with plot twists, encounters with world-famous design legends, and a bright yellow dining room in Lake Forest that serves as both set piece and muse. ‘If yellow were a person, she would be outgoing and upbeat and be

Jonathan Zalben’s journey to becoming an indemand composer and music supervisor for film and television soundtracks started in public elementary school in New York. Back then, it was customary for New York public schools to provide each student with a musical instrument as a way of tapping their potential interest in song. “I started playing