Gonzaga University

•Bill Battle, forced out as head football coach at Tennessee: "Class is, when they run you out of town, to look like you're leading the parade."

Kip Motta, who is 9 years old and blond, collected 211 or 256 or 295 pieces of candy last Halloween. Kip counted them, but he wasn't really sure. The next morning he ate two pieces and marked them off in his head....

Georges Carpentier, 65, recalling the Dempsey era over cognac in his prosperous Paris restaurant: "You used to have to fight to eat. Nowadays the welfare state—it does too much for you. The boys are soft and they...