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...Sept. 5, online discussions were already in full swing on the baby's exceptionally furry pate and blue eyes. Paparazzi still stalk Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's multi-cultural brood, even though the couple sold photos of their infant daughter, Shiloh, to People magazine last spring in a bid to raise money for charity while deflecting unwanted cameras. Britney Spears and Kevin Federline cuddled up to newborn Sean Preston on the cover of People last fall. Within months photographers so harassed Spears that she was caught on film driving her SUV away from them with babe dangerously held...
...Aleksy visited Harvard in 2003 in a bid to have the bells returned. In an e-mail to Lowell House last week, Eck and Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin wrote that "we will certainly have another visit from Russia to Lowell House" this academic year...
...works. However, one painting by Sickert–“Portrait of Thérèse Lessore”–is currently on display in the Fogg. As she gives the works by Sickert to Harvard, Cornwell isn’t giving up in her bid to establish a link between the artist and the killer. She hopes that DNA testing will provide her with further evidence to support her theory. “This isn’t over with yet,” she said.-Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached...
...melted-chocolate-smooth Swiss, Roger Federer, 25, or the bulldog from Spain, Rafael (Rafa) Nadal, 20? The top-ranked players in the world--Federer is No. 1, Nadal No. 2--have met in two major finals this summer, with the dirtballing specialist Nadal spoiling Federer's bid for the Grand Slam by beating him on the clay at the French Open. Federer, in turn, held serve against Rafa on the drag-strip grass at Wimbledon to win his fourth straight title at the fortnight...
...sweeping cuts in production also have sparked speculation that Ford, like GM, will offer buyouts and or early retirements to virtually all of its blue-collar workers, providing the United Auto Workers agrees, in a bid to dramatically reduce costs. Paul Krell, a spokesman for the UAW, declined to comment but privately a number of union officials acknowledge that a GM-style deal is in the works...