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Word: czarinas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last three-and-a-half years, Tessa C. Petrich ’07 has played the role of party planner, event organizer, and gracious hostess. Now is Harvard ready for a fun czarina? Petrich has a long resume of fun. “I prefer to be backstage than on it,” Petrich says about her work with Harvard fashion show Eleganza, in which she served as fashion director, creative director, and most recently, executive producer. “I like creating an opportunity for others to have fun.” Since her freshman year, Petrich...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tessa C. Petrich | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...rancher, Combs is given to straight talking and no-nonsense solutions. "The stats are so clear, the problem so dire, the financial problems so enormous, can we not address it?" she asks. Her detractors call her the Food Nazi behind her back--to which she replies serenely, "I prefer czarina, not that they'll understand the difference." The sniping about lost revenues from PTA bake sales and vending machines just leaves her exasperated. "Are we going to sell marijuana to build gyms?" she says, relishing the hyperbole. "Well, the health-care consequences of this food are that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cafeteria Crusader | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...peppered with snide remarks regarding the wealthy, the established, the nationalist, the patriotic. I caress my Dover edition of Theory of the Leisure Class and use phrases such as “pecuniary emulation” and “consumer consciousness.” I think Juliet Schor (czarina of “Shop ’Til You Drop”) embodies the ideal human. I adhere to Harvard liberalism and hatred of the military. However, after the break-up with said executive, my true affections and affiliations surface rapidly...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love Story | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

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