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Much to every gossip's chagrin, Chelsea left town this past Monday, returning to her trying duties of being the country's most powerful teenager...
...behalf of baby boomers everywhere, many of whom are just now filling out financial-aid forms for children accepted under early admission, I set out to track the tuition dollar by focusing on a single institution. I chose Penn, much to the chagrin of its director of communications, because it had the misfortune of having accepted me, because I wouldn't mind sending my own daughters there and because the forces that drove up Penn's costs are fundamentally the same as those at every other major university. My journey--taken at a time of great tumult in higher education...
...past. In Malibu, California, Ovitz is buying a few acres of property on a seaside bluff, a $5 million parcel belonging to Motown mogul Berry Gordy. Malibu property has a distressing habit of sliding into the sea or turning into charcoal, yet this particular purchase caused great chagrin to Ovitz's former Creative Artists partner Ron Meyer, now president of Universal. Seems Meyer had unwarily confided in Ovitz that he absolutely coveted the property, only to learn two days later that Ovitz had snapped it up. In addition, Ovitz apparently isn't satisfied with his Brentwood residence, hard...
...silenced by intimidation, exile or the imposition of prison terms, administrative detention, or house arrest. No dissidents were known to be active at year's end." Ironically, the survey was released even as two U.S. delegations were visiting China to talk about trade and human rights. Much to the chagrin of human rights activists, President Clinton delinked the two issues in his first term, a line new Secretary of State Albright seems to be following. She promised "to tell it like it is on the human rights issues" when she took office last week, yet warned that the overall relationship...
...lunch, if only for the shock value it has in startling her mother. She has become a vegetarian who protests for animal rights and bewails the meaninglessness of grades. She has changed her major and her boyfriend more times than she can count, much to her mother's chagrin. But Jane has also changed since the two last saw each other. She has a boyfriend, her supervisor at work, who happens to be coming to lunch. As much as she complains about not knowing what her daughter is doing, Jane hasn't given Azalea the full story on her life...