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Lady Sarah Spencer, Diana's sister, would later say she was "playing cupid" when she invited the Prince of Wales to her family's Althorp estate for a shooting weekend in November 1977. Sarah was probably joking, since she had had designs on Charles herself. Her sister hardly looked like competition, standing shyly by in a checked shirt and an anorak. Nor was the future princess greatly impressed herself: "What a sad man," she thought of Charles. Her opinion soon changed, and as her father would recall of the weekend, "Somehow she automatically ended up standing at the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fateful Meetings | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...Eros," the longest story of the book, bounces back and forth from a beleaguered mother to her daydream of being young, beautiful and nude, romping through idyllic hills and riding on giant, flying bugs. Shot down by a sleazy-looking cupid, she falls for a man with the head of a jackass. (Caveat emptor: pages 26 and 27 have been transposed in the printing, a fact you take for granted given topsy turvy nature of this work.) The Fellini-esque fantasy of a woman in the food court whose reality creates disturbing parallels in her dream world, "Eros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the "Cusp" | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...decided to respond to some of the personals to find out from the singles themselves how well Harvard’s alumni magazine plays cupid. The personal of one searching single who announced herself as a “Susan Sarandon” and “Donna from Mind of the Married Man” hybrid caught our eye—and responded to our phone calls...

Author: By W.d. Widman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SWF M.B.A. Seeks SWM J.D. For Walks Along Beach | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...about on pre-frosh weekend? FM does. It’s true that people of all proclivities and pastimes roam this campus, but sadly, once freshman week is over, they tend to find their own and stay with them. The same applies to dating, which inspired FM to play cupid this Valentine’s Day. Two apparently disparate pairs were handpicked to give it a try over a free dinner at Spice, raising a multitude of questions. Could the Bee and the Co-op click? Eurotrash and country punk? Meet the dates below, and then turn the page...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

It’s softball, though, that puts her center stage—even in her love life. Softball played cupid when Whitton met boyfriend Christopher T. Brown ’05 at a team party last year. “I was a junior and he was a freshman, so it was very scandalous,” Whitton says. As for Brown, a heavyweight rower, it’s not the age difference that bothers him. “The hardest part about dating her is getting used to being known only as Tiffany’s boyfriend...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Seniors, Part I | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

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