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Croyle played college football for Alabama's legendary Bear Bryant and told him he wanted to turn pro to raise money to help children. Bryant replied, "Don't play pro football unless you're willing to marry it." Croyle started a home for abused and abandoned children, and has helped more than 1,000 boys and girls since...
...Victoria's real secret? well, possibly that some of those frilly unmentionables ogled in catalogues and purchased from pink boutiques may be illegally imported from China. That's the allegation being leveled at the Limited, the retail giant that controls Victoria's Secret, as well as at Lane Bryant, Structure, Express and Abercrombie & Fitch. In a civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong Kong. Private...
When Cole left on a trip to Italy, his friend William Cullen Bryant, nature poet and editor, urged him in a sonnet not to be seduced by the humanized, picturesque Europe--to "keep that earlier, wilder image bright." After Cole's early death, that image was to get wilder and brighter still in the work of his only pupil, Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900). Descended from six generations of Yankee ministers and merchants, patriotic and deeply religious, Church inherited Cole's belief in a style of landscape suffused with "a language strong, moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly...
...evening when the air rests heavily on the trees and the lights of Memorial Church glow through the haze of twilight, I wonder what it will mean to leave this place in three weeks. I stand at the intersection of paths in Tercentenary Theatre and think of what James Bryant Conant '14 said during Harvard's tercentenary year of 1936: "He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground." What will I miss about this hallowed ground? And what will I carry with...
...CANDIDATE] ELIZABETH DOLE FORMER FIRST LADY CANDIDATE [SIGN OF RUNNING] Endorsed (again) last week at Harvard by husband Bob [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Already has a good job [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Maggie Thatcher [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Anita Bryant...