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...nerve to ask for six months of leave.“When I [told my parents] I was quitting my I-banking job, there was a pregnant pause at the other end of the line,” Brown said. Her parents were initially skeptical about her decision to enter the uncertain world of the music industry, but in 1987, Brown received an offer she could not refuse. Alison Krauss, who had just released her first solo album as a bluegrass singer and fiddler, invited Brown to join her on a tour with the Union Station band as their banjo...
...woman ever to be crowned “Miss Radcliffe.” That year, the annual beauty contest—judged by Harvard professors who would watch the girls read aloud a provided passage—came under scrutiny as two of the nine Radcliffe dorms refused to enter candidates in the contest in protest, claiming it was “against Radcliffe principles.”The winner was to be featured in a Glamour magazine spread featuring 10 of the best-dressed college women in the United States. In addition to the spread, the winner would receive...
...Southwest. 16. Drink 100 cans of Bawls in one sitting and chill with Death for a little while in HeartAttack City before escaping gloriously on the wings of an angel who looks strangely like Drew G. Faust. 17. Play Super Smash Brothers on Nintendo 64 until you enter a new dimension. In said new dimension, hang out with Tupac, who is still living, but in the infinite that is no time or space. 18. Jam with someone who rocks professionally. 19. Be the man (or woman), just for one day. 20. Take it to the max not because you have...
...crest of a wave of visits from leaders and nationalists from African nations and Cyprus and that it was part of a trend of “big changes.” But not all in the audience shared Barker’s positive impressions. Although he said he entered with high expectations, Lockshin said that “the speech… was very, very long, challenging the most mind-numbing of professors for inducing restlessness in the crowd.” The biggest “turn-off” for Lockshin was Castro’s comment...
...France Flight 447, a twin-engine A330, took off from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro at 7:30 p.m. local time and was last heard from three hours later, when the cockpit crew radioed to tell Brazilian air controllers that the plane would enter Senegalese airspace at 11:20 p.m., according to a statement from Aeronautica, the body in charge of Brazilian airspace. (No message from Senegalese airspace was ever received.) Speaking at a press conference, Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon said the plane encountered stormy weather and strong turbulence at 11 p.m. and shortly...