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...Smith was a dreamy 20-year-old from a blue collar family. She was obsessed with art, film and books, and her taste in decadent demigods was impeccable, from Charles Baudelaire to William Burroughs. But she was drifting into a prosaic life. The previous year she had gotten pregnant, dropped out of a teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed to look up friends in Brooklyn...
...quest to explore her own faithlessness. She grew up in an Orthodox household but cast aside her Hebrew religious study as a teenager. As an adult, her sense of God was that if he existed, he was not a micromanager. ("As far as I knew, he had never gotten me a parking space.") She wants to believe in something but doesn't know what...
...pretend you don't know, is one of the most important reality-show stars of our time. To promote her album, the 23-year-old star of MTV's The Hills agreed to appear on a People magazine cover to show off all the plastic surgery she's gotten. She posed in Playboy, started her own fashion line and declared that as a celebrity she should not have to endure staying on the show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me out of Here! She is the Paris Hilton of our time. (See the top 10 skanky reality shows...
Although Harvard has gotten off to a bumpy start, the return of co-captain Gil Weintraub in the squad’s last matchup provides reason for optimism...
Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy, who hinted that his days at Harvard might be numbered during his 10-minute presentation, discussed the future of protest—an area in which “teabaggers and terrorists and other terrible people might have gotten a head start...