Word: butler
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...Fact: Nineteen then-sophomore girls founded the Seneca after realizing that the Harvard social system was, according to co-president Julia M. Butler '01, "institutionalized and perpetuating...
...application process and main parties are "open." It is not a sorority because it is not part of a nation-wide organization. This should be obvious by the fact that its name does not consist of a couple Greek letters. No female social organizations have buildings. (Please see Butler's quote in previous fact...
...Fact: Seneca members do not want the group to be coed. Previous co-president Kirstin E. Butler '01, along with two other members, dropped out within six months of the group's founding. One of their goals for the club had been to begin a dialogue with the male final clubs about becoming coed, and they felt it would be hypocritical to embark on such a task as a single-sex group...
...still, if you are so inclined, taste a bottle of 1800 Madeira from Thomas Jefferson's collection at the Rio Suites Hotel and Casino wine party for $2,050 or lease the half-size Eiffel Tower at the Paris for a party of 40 to 50--including chef, butler and host's suite--for a mere $200,000. The stock-option challenged can find Strip accommodations for a (relatively) less exorbitant $400 a night, and those are selling more briskly. But hotel rooms, which the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority predicted would sell out by fall, are still going...
...Peppering the rest of the cast is: Michael Gough (the butler in all of the Batmans), Ian McDiarmid, (the Emperor in Return of the Jedi,) and Christopher Lee, a London-born actor who, having been in over 250 films and TV shows, holds the title in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the international star with the most screen credits. Such a high-caliber cast demonstrates the power of Tim Burton as a director to attract such talent even for bit parts, and the skill with which he is able to transform even well-known actors into barely...