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Stacey Hoffman, 32, wasn't always a babe. Two years ago, when she drove her pickup truck into an auto-window-tinting shop owned by Kevin May in Lincoln, Neb., May, six years her senior, barely noticed her. Then an aide at a nearby nursing home and mired in a rocky, miserable relationship, Stacey weighed 180 lbs., deeply disliked the sight of her own face and didn't exactly radiate self-confidence. She didn't radiate much of anything, except perhaps a conviction that she looked 50 and would never be as happy or as attractive as Lisa, her bikini...
...What drove Fountains of Wayne to Stacy's Mom was the usual soul-killing nightmare of the music industry. Schlesinger and Collingwood, both 36, met as undergraduates at Williams College and soon after started Fountains of Wayne (named after a lawn-ornament store near Schlesinger's New Jersey home), adding bassist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young along the way. They signed a major-label deal with Atlantic Records in 1996 and were promptly buried by everything else on the radio. "There's this expression, Bo-Now music," says Collingwood. "It's that whole genre where singers just scream...
...Crimson led by a bucket after Beatty tipped in a Norman miss with 31 seconds remaining in the second half, but Bronc Robert Taylor drove and converted a layup to tie it with 13 seconds left...
...that our picture of 17th century New England was not entirely accurate. I am not sure that it is possible for a society to be as gloomy as the one we imagine the Puritans inhabited. Surely extreme asceticism is as doomed a societal ethos as extreme hedonism. This suspicion drove me to e-mail David D. Hall ’58, the Divinity School’s Bartlett Professor of New England Church History...
...native North Carolinian, he took a leave of absence from law school and drove cross-country from Sacremento to Edwards’ national headquarters in Raleigh last summer...