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...Kuwait, where oil sales could provide every man, woman and child over $10,000 a year. In order to raise the living standards of the average Iraqi oil, revenue will have to be one pillar used as a base to build a modern economy and not a magic elixir capable of creating a transformation...
...SORCEROR. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of The Sorceror. The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at the outdated Victorian values of its time, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences. Through Saturday...
...SORCERER. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of “The Sorcerer.” The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at outdated Victorian values, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences...
...uniforms, there were also the socially horrific memories of gym class, trigonometry and that embarrassingly cliché infatuation with Tom Cruise. The fountain of youth may have been discovered—and bottled at just $80 a pop—but I was not ready to partake of the elixir (or rather, the exfoliant). I left the launch with the face I walked in with plus a bag of ridiculously expensive beauty products I was too terrified...
Estrogen is indeed the closest thing in modern medicine to an elixir of youth--a drug that slows the ravages of time for women. It is already the No. 1 prescription drug in America, and it is about to hit its demographic sweet spot: the millions of baby boomers now experiencing their first hot flashes...what today's women should know is that like every other magic potion, this one has a dark side...It means a lifetime of drug taking and possible side effects that include an increased risk of several forms of cancer. That danger was underscored last...