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...happened, her future husband had just finished two years at the same university. For Naruhito, who speaks English almost as fluently, Oxford was a liberation. Though he did have minimal security protection, he was for the first time in his young life on his own. A wine fancier, he could walk into a liquor store and pick his own bottles. He could go to the laundry and make a fool of himself by letting suds flood the floor. When the winter turned harsh, he could tape his own windows or suffer the consequences. He made good use of his experience...
...Kennedy School has a nice application for an individual school, but it is fancier than what we'd be able to do for the University as a whole," Flecker said...
Liquid Money. Before contemplating anything fancier, most people should get rid of all their high-interest debt (to earn 18% tax-free and risk-free, pay off your Visa) . . . buy their cars for cash (yes, it's legal to pay off a car loan; no, leasing's not generally a good idea) . . . stock up on "the economy size" when items are on sale (an "investment" in sale-priced soda, socks and soap can stretch $1,000 to buy $1,400 worth of the same stuff you'd have bought anyway -- a 40% tax-free return) . . . and stash away at least...
...dialogue make him a playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them, alas, happen offstage and are reported in monologues by the decorators...
...Things here are fancier. We are more into blazers, skirts and dresses," Melloon said. "We are influenced by French fashion and have our eye on Europe...