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...oversize, snotty fashion magazine. The June issue ran this tidbit: "Those adorable newlyweds Vanessa and Bill Getty hosted a gala wine tasting and auction at the St. Francis Hotel with the swell crowd invited"--just a page away from a picture of someone named Muffy Potter Ashton. I mock the magazine partly because I figure if I make the editors mad enough, they will cut me from the spread and no one will have to see the pictures of me. But mostly because it sucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Hate Myself Because I'm Beautiful | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Ashton Carter, the former assistant U.S. secretary of defense and a current professor at the Kennedy School of Government who moderated the "Korea: Prospects for Peace on the Peninsula" panel, opened with a reminder...

Author: By Bolek Z. Kabala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Express Optimism for Peace in Korea | 4/13/2000 | See Source »

Other panelists included Araz Azimov, a foreign affairs official from Azerbaijan; Ashton Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at the Kennedy School; and Tim Cejka, vice president of Exploration for Exxon Venture, which explores opportunities for exploiting new oil resources in the former Soviet Union...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Experts Discuss Caspian Sea Oil Reserves | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Unlike dancemakers who favor the hard-edged, stripped-down contemporary idiom that he crisply dismisses as "technoballet," Wheeldon is an unabashed classicist. His style, a bracingly confident fusion of George Balanchine's structural clarity with the sunny lyricism of Frederick Ashton, is respectful of tradition without stooping to imitation. He's also a sucker for tutus, toe shoes and moonlit pas de deux. "I don't have much angst in me," he says. "I love to be romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Christopher Wheeldon: Master of His Domain | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...talking about the disappearance of a building in Oklahoma City but the disappearance of Oklahoma City," said Ashton B. Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Catastrophic Terrorism Forewarned | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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