A quick peep at the Vanity Fair website will yield, to the interested seeker, a slideshow of journalist Christopher Hitchens getting his teeth capped and his balls waxed. All this is done in the name of self-improvement and, surely, journalistic pay dirt. But thanks to some strategic towel placement, the slideshow isn’t a crude series [...]

I. ANNA KOURNIKOVA
Two minutes into Stanford and I’ve spotted a girl with blonde hair and a California smile. She rolls into the Wilbur quad with wheelie-bags while I sling duffels like a real man should. She gives me a first-day half-wave, the kind that says, I’ll be seeing you around, but my hands are stuffed [...]