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...created exclusively for Prada). The mills will come back with 25 or more variations on her request. "That is the real luxury of being a big fashion company. When you are big, the quality is better," she explains. For the average women's fall-winter collection, she will focus on as many as 50 different fabrics, eventually narrowing the final selection down...
...asked us for a record deal. We’re trying to start a rumor that Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy has contacted us,” he says, half-jokingly.A BETTER WORLD?With the show no longer serving as a distraction, Dern has turned his focus to his studies. His facial hair is getting longer, and his clothes have returned to a neon hue reminiscent of his pre-show days.Last week, the last bits of glitter finally hit the floor. Dern fulfilled his final press obligations in Los Angeles, and attended a wrap party in Las Vegas...
...left open to theatrical improvisation. He says he believes that through improvisation, actors can bring more life and energy to the performance. “My opinion on acting, if I had to sum it up, is that it’s a lot more about an outward focus, about responding to someone,” he says. “No one wants to see someone up there just expostulating and internalizing. It’s only interesting to watch when you’re communicating with someone, when the audience is engaged and you’re responding...
...said that, with HCEF’s help, they had found grant programs that provided them with the money to actualize their ideas. Acting as a networking liaison for students with entrepreneurial aspirations is one of HCEF’s primary aims. “What we try to focus on as an organization is pooling all the resources at this institution and the alumni base,” said Nimay K. Mehta ’09, co-founder and president of HCEF. “We don’t have much of the expertise to help with these...
...deserve to be here does not deserve to be here. The topic of “merit”—however that amorphous term can be simplified—is a fruitless conversation, and it distracts from the more important issues on which we all should focus. I always say that Harvard freshmen have more to teach us than upperclassmen have to teach them: There’s rarely a freshman I talk to that’s comfortable with their position in their respective Harvard classes—so many believe they don’t deserve...