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...then there were eight. This year, Harvard womankind brings three new clubs to campus. A 17th-century aristocrat, seven sisters of Greek mythology and still-undecided Greek letters will be the symbols of these new social domains, and their images will soon be scrawled on invitations slipped under doors across campus. One “society” promises to usher recruits into posh V.I.P. rooms; another looks to cultivate a homey atmosphere with popcorn and old movies. In a year when male final clubs have tempered their festive image, the number of female social clubs will soon equal...
...sleeping with producer Lorne Michaels' wife, not to mention with Gilda Radner, who developed an eating disorder, and Laraine Newman, who was snorting heroin. It led to Julia Sweeney and Dana Carvey weeping in their dressing rooms, and Chris Farley running around naked and defecating out of a 17th-story window. Not to mention Bill Murray and Chevy Chase throwing punches moments before the opening monologue. (Chase is almost unanimously portrayed as insufferably rude and insulting...
...from diamonds, since they look just like diamonds. I know it’s their chemical formula, but still, I think they should be something different from sapphires or diamonds, maybe. What century almost anything literary happened in. Are the Brontës 19th or 18th? Cervantes 16th or 17th? And stuff like Saint Augustine or Virgil or Homer—forget it. And I concentrated in literature. Why David Caruso left “NYPD Blue” and Julianna Margulies left “ER” and James Gandolfini wants to leave “The Sopranos?...
...emerald part of Ireland--its lush countryside--is on vivid display just a 30-minute drive (or bus ride) away at Powerscourt, a 14th century castle whose gardens unfold among the Wicklow Mountains. Renovated and expanded in the 17th century by the English Marshall of Ireland, the castle is a jewel of Georgian formality that has served as movie backdrop for Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Even if it's raining--and by St. Patrick, it's likely to be--spend some time along the trails winding through the 45-acre castle gardens...
...revenge, though golf fans will surely bring up 1991's War by the Shore at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the Americans, in the flush of Gulf War bellicosity, donned camouflage caps. Or the bad manners at Brookline in 1999, when Team U.S.A. - players, wives, hangers-on - stormed the 17th green to celebrate what turned out to be the winning putt, even though Spain's José María Olazábal hadn't yet played his. It's not a Europe-as-one spirit either - though the Ryder Cup and its women's counterpart, the Solheim...