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Nunn and his teams decided a comprehensive mine-to-magazine approach was needed, and they found a blueprint in their own backyard in South Africa at the De Beers diamond company. Several current best-selling books look at how trends are spawned and spread, and debate continues over whether one could completely engineer the next Big Thing. The answer is yes: De Beers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing a New Stone | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...dreamt about it. You remember the countless afternoons spent in the backyard playing out that defining moment. The moment when the spotlight shines solely on you. That singular instance where you realize that you, after the many hours of work and dedication, finally made it. And now, as your mouth is too numb to speak and the joy sets upon you, your index finger, raised high into the air, expresses all that needs to be said...“We’re number...

Author: By Vincent R. Oletu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outright Title Within Crimson's Reach | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...wealth by the government. “Americans are a charitable people. We’re extending our charity in the War on Terror—we’re trying to free people,” she said. “Iraq is like our light in the backyard trying to catch a moth. You can get all the moths in one and then you can nuke them. We’re a charitable people, we could have ended this a long time ago.” HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the Lincoln...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HRC Star Slams Welfare | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...move the party to the Owl once the AD steward found out...Good thing they were dressed in “workout gear”—tight leggings, exposed bras, legwarmers, etc.—since the Owl now has its very own ice-rink in the backyard...Artsy types at Story Street were treated to the sight of many an undernourished torso after a certain former poetry editor forcefully removed their vintage t-shirts...Good thing they chowed down on some delicious SPAM on crackers at the 50s-themed Signet tea earlier in the week. Mmm...Partiers...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Chatter | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Thirty years ago, the gay community was fighting (and losing) a real battle in the backyard of every Jewish boy’s grandmother. In June 1977, reacting to a modest gay rights ordinance adopted in Dade County, Florida, former beauty queen and Christian activist Anita Bryant mounted a campaign called, slyly enough, “Save Our Children.” Bryant and her SOC called for the repeal of the ordinance, which was the first in the country to grant protection in housing, public accommodations, and employment to people based on their “affectional or sexual...

Author: By Ari E. Waldman | Title: Gay? Grab a Snickers | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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