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...City” catapulted the sweet-flavored cosmopolitan to fame. Many hipsters wanted to toast glasses of the pink liquid, and bartenders quickly took note. Professionals in the liquor industry began searching for another chic, girly drink with the same winning qualities, and many of these searches ended with the apple martini. Apple have always been ideal for fall festivities, and many party-goers have adopted sour apple martinis as this season’s cocktail...
Perhaps most interesting is the case of Mary Lou Schiavo ’76, who achieved further Glamour fame after taking home two more awards from the magazine. In the ’80s, Schiavo, then inspector general for the Department of Transportation, won Glamour’s “Working Woman” contest. Then, after writing a book, teaching aeronautical engineering and working for the California law firm Baum & Hedland, she took home one of Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” awards in 1997, a title recently shared...
Reese Witherspoon, 26, was a critics' darling (especially in Election) before she earned fame last year in Legally Blonde. Superficially, Sweet Home Alabama is a similar fish-out-of-water scenario. Blonde sent a Beverly Hills fashionista to Harvard Law School; Sweet sends Southern gal Melanie--who had fled to New York City, found success as a designer and landed the mayor's son as her fiance--back home to get a quick divorce from Jake (Josh Lucas), the boy she had loved, wed and left in rancor. But Jake is so steamed that he won't sign the papers...
DIED. MIKE WEBSTER, 50, Hall of Fame pro-football center whose staunch play on the offensive line helped the Pittsburgh Steelers capture four Super Bowl championships in the 1970s; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh, Pa. After he left the NFL, Webster suffered bouts of depression and memory loss, apparently brought on by repeated blows to the head during his playing years...
...lengthy prison experience is intense, and it brings out the best in writing that is otherwise bland. He is arrested after sneaking back into Burma in 1998, and when he withholds his identity from police, they torture him. It's nothing that would make Amnesty International's Hall of Fame, but it is terrifying, and Mawdsley makes you feel it. Worst might be the "iron road," where a metal rod is rolled up and down the victim's shins until the skin is stripped to the bone. The terror almost leads him to abandon his mission...