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...Cowboys are ranked 47th in the nation, two spots behind the 45th-ranked Crimson. If the Cowboys come to Cambridge with a healthy lineup, the Crimson would have to be considered the underdogs in Friday's match...
...Simpson. Many are messages of sympathy and support. Most are merely curious -- people, says the sheriff, who "want to know what he's wearing and what he's eating." One irate Minnesotan phoned last Thursday demanding to know how the sheriff's department was planning to celebrate O.J.'s 47th birthday, which, coincidentally, fell last Saturday, one day after he was remanded to trial. Simpson could not have been in much of a mood to celebrate...
...absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote d'Azur playground than cinephiles would care to admit, was only moderately fabulous. It appeared as if the 47th edition of the movie industry's biggest annual deal-fest would tiptoe into history with a sigh and a shrug...
...conversation, this veteran adman offered me a few words of friendly advice. "Forget Tiffany," he said. "Buy your wife her jewelry on 47th Street." He was referring to the world-famous diamond district, which is the epicenter of the wholesale jewelry trade. Now each year, on the eve of my wedding anniversary, I shop amid the tiny booths of 47th Street. I will admit that the whole experience still fills me with apprehension. Each time I contemplate a purchase, I can imagine the off-price jeweler later boasting, "You won't believe what I just sold to that bald...
...easy to flee back to Tiffany, that bastion of riskless excellence. But bravely I hold my ground on 47th Street, like a World War I doughboy dug in on the Marne, because I have finally absorbed an enduring life lesson: children play with the box; adults care about what's inside. So to Tiffany Ariana Trump, I wish a childhood filled with blue boxes with her first name on them. And if in later life she feels compelled to live up to her first name, may she skip the diamonds and instead open a homey little restaurant. Anyone for Breakfast...