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...September 1996, Michele L. Woodbury '00 was in the backseat of a van, halfway from South Jersey to Cambridge, when she began reading a magazine article that a neighbor had clipped out and saved...
RELATIONSHIP HIGH POINT: The touching loyalty she displayed in 1995 when he was arrested for lewd behavior after being caught with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown in the backseat...
...vacant, except for a shiny red sports car that cruised past me and pulled to a halt curbside. Out of the car emerged two well-dressed, well-coifed Harvard students--and a strung-out prostitute. As I stood entranced, my two classmates helped the wobbly woman out of the backseat and led her to the door of one of Cambridge's venerable private clubs. Laughing raucously, the unlikely trio disappeared inside. Daddy's money well-spent, I suppose...
...they learned was that an American Buick wouldn't necessarily suit China. So the Buicks they produce have been subtly redesigned for the Chinese market. Since most of the buyers are bureaucrats or managers of state-owned enterprises, all of whom have chauffeurs, the car is built for a backseat passenger. Air-conditioning and radio controls face the backseat. The chassis has been strengthened to deal with China's bad road surfaces. The V6 engine has been reduced from 3.1 liters to 2.98 to get around an unwritten rule in China that only people of ministerial level are allowed...
Above the gold level is "open" competition, in which a checklist of required steps takes a backseat to individual choreography and style...