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Even our outfits were coordinated nightly. The a cappella jam you'll experience orientation week was deemed "a black tank top" affair. We collectively agreed to wear khakis to a mixer on the Widener steps. When the annual showing of Love Story was giddily dubbed "skirt night," even I went along with...
Consider the quasi-royal encore wedding of Anne Andrews, 45, and John Carleton Thornton III, 50, both of whom were married once before. Held last month at the home of California state senator Joe Dunn, a family friend, the $30,000 affair was a step up from Andrews' first wedding, which cost a fourth as much. This time, a separate coordinator was hired just to handle the children at the ceremony, who were ferried about in an antique Rolls-Royce complete with uniformed footmen. The rehearsal dinner, a picnic at a lake, included a trout-fishing derby...
...release of Belle And Sebastian's fourth album was no 'N Sync affair. Crowd control was not required. Traffic was not stopped. But when the doors opened at New York City's downtown Tower Records store last Tuesday morning, a steady procession of people--very intelligent-looking adult people--headed to the racks, grabbed their copies of Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (Matador) and tore out of the store, desperate to get to the first music-playing implement they could lay their hands on. Soon the Belle and Sebastian websites, and there are dozens of them...
Remarriage, which Samuel Johnson famously called "the triumph of hope over experience," is also a much more relaxed affair. "Nobody's freaking out over shades of pink," says Chicago wedding consultant Elaine Teter. "The wedding day is not necessarily the most important day of their lives," she adds. "After all, they've already been through it, and look what happened...
...Serbian strongman has little reason to fear the veteran opposition leader these days. In contrast to the string of professional hits that have eliminated both friend and foe of the Milosevic regime over the past year, Friday's attempt on Draskovic was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair, the gunmen spraying the opposition leader's holiday apartment with automatic rifle fire while he was vacationing in Montenegro. But not even an attempt on his life is likely to restore his declining political fortunes...