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Jessica Simpson, famous newlywed turned famous divorcé, has no such ambitions for A Public Affair. Simpson owes her career to the MTV reality show she did with her ex, boy-band alum Nick Lachey, and her album is an unapologetic bit of celebrity striptease. For starters, there are the title and some Jackie Collins-- quality liner notes ("I believe in fantasy, but no longer do I believe in fairytales"). Simpson's voice is blandly likable, but she overemotes so much that you can't fail to deduce whom she's talking about on I Don't Want to Care...
Patrick Bateman is smoking hot. He’s doing loads of cocaine. He’s wielding a chainsaw. And he’s a Harvard alum...
Merrill Lynch analyst Stanislav Shpigelman pleaded guilty last Friday to providing Harvard alum Eugene M. Plotkin ’00 and David Pajcin insider information in a plot that allegedly earned the pair $6.7 million illegally, according to the Associated Press...
...into older folks' connection with their alma mater, a few schools have gone so far as to offer burial plots on campus. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, is the final resting place of alum Charles Kuralt, the former CBS newsman. But maybe that's taking things a step too far--for now, anyway. Boomers are only turning 60. They're not thinking about dying. They're thinking about reliving what many regard as the best years of their life. Who knows? Maybe that's what the years ahead will turn...
...miss the side orders: the better-than-your-mom's macaroni and cheese, and the onions, laced with Roquefort and grilled until brown and sweet. The best restaurant in town is New Rivers, newriversrestaurant.com, around the corner from the Mills Tavern. It's run by risd alum Bruce Tillinghast, who says he "uses elements of food like elements of color, making them work together." The flavors change seasonally, but the virtuosity of his combinations don't; recently, his airy gnocchi came with spinach, goat's cheese and pomegranate. Save room for the lemon tartlet, a flaky nest of buttery semi...