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...wrists. The American Red Cross, always one to capitalize on a good rivalry—terrorism versus freedom, man versus nature—will pit Elis and Cantabs in a competitive blood drive that’s sure to settle once and for all which school has the most blueblood running through its veins. As always, gay blood not welcome. (No, no, it’s true! After all, it is the Red Cross...
Decades after his time in Cambridge, this blueblood remained a legend among Harvard students...
Ever since that whole “meritocracy” thing happened, true-blueblood Ivy Leaguers have had to use sartorial means to identify one another in a crowd. You know the drill: Brooks Brothers oxford button-down, ribbon belt, tweed jacket and—for the more sporting chap—a pastel Lacoste polo, collar upturned. But wait a second—weren’t half the people in your Tuesday morning Gov class wearing the exact same thing? Welcome to campus style, 2004: Retro preppy is in, and if the morning traffic across the Yard last...
...Course last week. Owners Roy and Patricia Chapman are an unlikely pair--Patricia is a peppy 62, and Roy, a weary 78, is confined to a wheelchair and hooked to an oxygen tank, the result of too many decades filled with too many Lucky Strikes. Far from a bluegrass blueblood, he made his living as a Philadelphia car dealer, and it was in his showroom in 1976 that he and Pat met. A decade later they went into the horse business, opening a 100-acre farm in Chester County...
...creditors--caught in the firm's financial woes can only envy McAuliffe's sense of timing and that of Winnick and Cook, who together sold Global Crossing stock worth about $750 million over the past 3 1/2 years. The co-chairmen are very different. Cook is a graceful blueblood; Winnick is a colorful native of New York's Long Island who is as lavish with his friends as he is with politicians. Two years ago, after downing hot dogs, hamburgers and french fries at a Beverly Hills deli, Winnick took his lunch partners--Cook and ex-Global CEO Tom Casey...