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Students who take the pledge on or before graduation will receive green ribbons to wear with their cap and gown...
...required of models. Some modeling conditions still stunned her. A few weeks ago, Emmy appeared in a bridal event, but was mistakenly cast as the mother-of-the-bride. iI got there, and there had been some screw-up with my age and sizes. Instead of having a bridal gown there that would fit me, they had a purple mother-of-the-bride plus-size suit. The director still insisted that I wear it!i she recalls. iThey stuck a million pins all over it, stuffed the top, and put me in six-inch heels so that it didnit drag...
...idea, with one important exception. The last moments of her life are exceptionally tranquil. She dies in her sleep and some time elapses before her death is even noticed by the hospital staff. Then, as doctors and technicians hover over her lifeless body, she creeps away serenely, sheds her gown and stands bathed in white light as the curtain falls. Her departure exudes quiet, dignified glory. Her transition to death is more of a comma than an intense, melodramatic instant. If nothing else, we can take comfort in the hope of that sweet transition, the comma...
...Sometime in October, at the very beginning of the year, I put up this photograph of myself, and I was in this fabulous purple, velvet gown, it was like a ball gown or something. It was on my door; I thought it was worth a laugh. Later, sometime in October, shortly after the students' return, it was torn off my door. I was furious. I was like, 'What the fuck?' I reported it to the Masters, who had no idea who had done it, why, what happened--total chaos. The next week: the other Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgendered and Supporters...
...Broadway Starbucks is a place where town and gown mingle. Students--from Harvard and the nearby Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School--dash in for a cup to go, while grad students and locals linger to read and chat...