Word: fifteen
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...time you hold this magazine in your hands, I will be holding something else in mine: a very serious problem. I will no longer be part of Fifteen Minutes. Or, at the very most, if I’m lucky, I’ll graduate from FM co-chair to FM legend. But everybody knows most legends are either actually or effectively dead...
Named after a measure of time, Fifteen Minutes—or FM as it’s more commonly known—is the edgier and slightly retarded stepchild of the revered Crimson, a newspaper that makes the Wall Street Journal read like literotica.com. Thankfully, FM is not quite as boring; indeed, it’s a bit like a similarly named magazine called FHM, minus the boobs and stories about dudes who get blackout and make outrageous bets that usually involve one of them getting breast implants...
...there you have it: Fifteen Minutes. While it’s not quite good enough for regular postal mail, it might just make you want to screw your doorbox back on. At the very least, FM’s relatively handsome graphics and generous dimensions make for great wrapping paper. Now all you have to do is remove a CD from the cover of a music magazine and you can check “Mom” off the Christmas list...
...isn’t afraid of falling any more. Initially, his Harvard career led him away from the disco and into the ivy-covered walls of The Harvard Crimson, where he scaled the ranks to become Associate Editor of FM, Fifteen Minutes Magazine, as a mere sophomore. This fall, Fee conceived an idea to mate his two interests, dance and FM. Their love child? The Fifteen Minutes Dance Team...
...ROTC isn’t all misery. “I flew in a T-34 plane and go stick time and did loops and flips and stuff like that over San Diego and Tijuana,” Brooks says. “I threw up for the next fifteen minutes.” After he graduates, Brooks will go on to further officer training, and by next year, at the age of 22, he will be responsible for his own platoon. In all likelihood, he will be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan in the near future. But before heading...