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Gardner projected by the year 2005, the ratio of classic national security spending such as defense budgets to "new" national security will be 16 to 1, a formula which he said will prove to be "self-destructive...
...Arts First] evolves every year to reflect the interests of the students and the faculty," Mayman said. "It's not set in a formula...
...adolescence, it was rare that I'd add inches in the arms, back and waist in the same proportions, and so the sweaters--while indisputably works of art--always ended up fitting somewhat oddly, designed for the creature I hadn't quite grown into. Over the years, the magic formula varied--two inches, half an inch, elastic--with the same tangible effect...
Commercial women's magazines are famous for defeating efforts to alter their standard formula, but none have ever encountered an editorial director who is also the host of an enormously popular women's magazine-on-the-air. O, a joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Entertainment Group and Hearst Magazines (which is printing 1 million copies of the first issue), is produced in New York City by a staff headed by editor in chief Ellen Kunes. A small, quiet, blond woman rendered even paler by the fluorescent bulbs of her office, Kunes was explaining the magazine last week with...
...Felicity" on Wednesday nights. You might idolize James Gandolfini from "The Sopranos" but your closet is filled with baby-blue cashmere turtlenecks. Your handy tool might be a DeWalt drill but all the girls know you can make a mean plate of vegetable lasagna. If you need a simple formula, try straight-boy rage plus feminine passion. So to summarize: Stallone out, Jude Law in. Macho out, unobtrusive self-confidence in. Or maybe it's better put this way-players out, female predators...