Waikiki

THE MONTH AHEAD

Chris ColwillBRANDON, FLA.Chris, 9, the youngest diver on the Junior Olympic-national team, won gold medals in the platform and three-meter events and got a bronze in the one-meter in the 13-and-under age group at...

MANAIAHONOLULUManaia, 5, a Labrador-Irish setter mix, defeated more than 200 of the 500 human entrants in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim in the Pacific Ocean. She finished the 2.375 miles in 90 minutes, though her only...

I was never much of a surfer, but I recall it as a fine sport, one which often demanded the virtue that Hemingway labeled "grace under pressure." Defined in prosaic language, this would be one's ability to handle...