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...among Harvard students has not felt the oppressive weight of the study card beat upon his or her brow? From the long, hard trek to Sever Hall to claim one’s card, one’s yoke, to the agony of filling out laboriously the myriad bubbles with obscure course numbers, to the patriarchal ritual of seeking out and gaining the approval of one’s academic adviser-cum-overlord, the study card is an institution without which Harvard students will be better...
LIFESTYLE: Lagerfeld goes low-brow; the poncho is back...
...defense, making a point of describing his family as very normal and fun loving. When informed how consistently his friends and siblings described him as a serious kid ("not just serious; very serious," says brother Cameron), Kerry's features head in two directions: his lips smile but his brow knits, and he immediately pushes back. Rather than spin the quality into a virtue for anyone running for President, particularly in these serious times, Kerry makes himself out to be Huck Finn, recounts his childhood larks and prep school shenanigans and love of "vegging out" during college...
ROBERT POLET Trading Up Luxury-goods maker Gucci shocked the fashion world when it picked Polet, 48, as its new CEO, since the Dutchman had spent his career at Unilever, a purveyor of low-brow brands such as Lever 2000 soap and Birds Eye peas. Polet has big, fancy shoes to fill at Gucci. Outgoing CEO Domenico De Sole is credited, along with designer Tom Ford, with reviving the empire. But Polet is a brand builder too. In his last post as president of Unilever's $7.8 billion frozen-foods division, he raised profit margins 70% in a little more...
...distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner and his higher-brow fans is telling; indeed, it's almost the point. Somehow Skinner wrings the consciousness of Everyman out of his own idiosyncrasies. His relaxed, chatty raps are littered with arcane references to specific British teenage slang and culture, yet the first album sold 130,000 copies on the Continent...