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...rooms are without telephones or TVs, although some members do carry cellphones. Yet you have to look closely to see evidence that you are inside the walls of an intensely devout religious order. Numerary Peter Anglada's chamber has a painting of the Virgin on one wall, a gold-framed print bearing a long Latin inscription on another, and a photo of the prelate of Opus Dei on a third. Other chambers are similarly ornamented, invariably with Catholic-themed...
...amateur” is as good a thing as being “professional” is bad. But the technicalities can be absurd. If your parents can afford to send you to sports camps every summer, you remain an amateur. You can win the gold medal for your country and the NCAA championship for your college and still be an amateur. But if you join your Olympic teammates on the Wheaties box, you instantly become a professional. That is why some 1998 U.S. women’s ice hockey Olympians were not in the Wheaties photo: appearing?...
...Boston Globe reported last March that Harvard undergraduates gave lower ratings to their college experience than students at other elite schools in a 2002 survey. The comparatively low rating of faculty accessibility and social life confirmed the long-held stereotype that, despite Harvard’s reputation as the gold standard of education, the University in many ways fails to meet the needs of its undergraduate needs. Many administrators and House Masters contacted could not explain the source of the party ban. “We just inherited it...we came into a tradition,” Conley said...
BEVERLY HILLS Debra Messing wore Michael Kors' sunglasses with brown gradient lenses and gold detail ($225) to his fall show...
...factory, Dassler Brothers Sports Shoe, producing more than 30 styles for 11 sports, including the first tennis sneaker. By 1936 the brothers were driving suitcases full of their coveted shoes to the Berlin Olympics, where they would persuade American Jesse Owens to sport their product. (He eventually won four gold medals wearing Dassler shoes.) Business boomed, and by the start of World War II, the Dasslers were producing 200,000 pairs of shoes a year. But success brought problems, and the brothers feuded, splitting in 1948 to create two separate companies?Rudi incorporating his as Puma and Adi opening...