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...other new BSA board members are Vice President Marissa A. Mike ’05, Secretary Curry E. Cheek ’07, Treasurer Rashan Jibowu ’06, Arts and Entertainment Chair Amanda-Jane A. Thomas ’07, Publicity and PR Chair Lauren N. Westbrook ’07, Public Service Chair Paula-Raye C. O’Sullivan ’07, Political Action Chair Senait Tesfai ’07, Publications Chair Nneka C. Eze ’07, Alumni Representative Jennifer N. Green ’07 and Senior Representative Helen O. Ogbara...
...working girl,” the contestants seemed all too willing to throw their respectability out the window in the pursuit of victory. Given the task of selling lemonade on the streets of New York, the female team wore extra tight shirts and included complimentary kisses on the cheek with every glass. When challenged to boost sales at Planet Hollywood, the women again fetched the street-walker wear out of their wardrobes and begged men on the street to buy them shots inside the restaurant. When presenting a new advertising approach for an airline, they photographed the jets as phallic...
...even though the attack was uncharacteristic, it came about because Vancouver had vowed revenge on Moore after he leveled Canucks captain Markus Naslund three weeks earlier, leaving him with a concussion. So Bertuzzi taunted, poked and yanked at Moore the entire game, but Moore kept turning the other cheek. Bertuzzi, who has since made a tearful apology, got frustrated and Springered him. Then the great Canadian finger wagging began...
...Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story of a red-baiting Senator with a diaper fetish; another, by Jim Starlin, flashes back to a trippy "cosmic" look...
When The Dew Breaker (Knopf; 244 pages), Edwidge Danticat's book of linked stories, begins, a young artist born in Brooklyn, N.Y.--Haitian, though she's never been to Haiti--learns from her father how he acquired the scar on his cheek he brought back from prison. He wasn't one of those receiving punishments, he tells his already unsettled daughter; he was one inflicting them. His sense of guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book...