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...wrong in the first seconds of Fat Actress, the Showtime sitcom (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.) based on her well-publicized experience as a 200-lb. actress in body-conscious Hollywood. Stepping on her bathroom scale, she reads the verdict, howls like a wounded animal and drops to the floor, then crawls to answer the phone. Her agent asks how she's doing. "Very well!" she sobs. "The pounds are just melting...
...ninth-floor offices of the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in developing countries build businesses, overlook Trinity Church in New York City's Financial District. Consider it a case of Wall Street crossing Hope Road. "It's a good metaphor," says Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen's founder. Some call it venture philanthropy, but Novogratz prefers the phrase "private equity for the poor." What that means is that a small company in India gets a $185,000 loan to make and sell affordable water filters. And that a Pakistani firm receives more than $260,000 in grants and loans...
...loudest call for action comes from the fourth floor of Gropius’ Story Hall, one of two all-female floors in the complex and the site of two of the five incidents...
...alone on Dec. 18, a Saturday during exam week when half the others on her floor had taken off for winter break. Bass had just studied for six hours and was relaxing with a late afternoon shower...
After an earlier meeting between administrators, police, and students after Bass’ peeping incident, HLS Facilities had installed a swipe card reader to restrict access to the fourth floor bathroom...