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...GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, ambulance chaser? That's how it appeared to families of ValuJet crash victims who received packages from the law firm of Coale & Van Susteren offering to represent them in return for 25% of any money the airline awards them. At least one package contained a picture and biography of Van Susteren, now a co-anchor on the CNN program Burden of Proof. While sending unsolicited offers isn't illegal, it is kind of cheesy, especially since the couple's firm has already been censured for soliciting clients in West Virginia. But John Coale pleads not guilty...
After all, the squad was pretty different from the team that narrowly lost to Princeton at the Eastern Championships last year. Gone was Deborah Kory, holder of two Harvard records and fifth-place finisher at the 1995 Easterns. Also lost were freestylers Greta Steffenson, Valerie Gilson and Kristan Gately, all of whom placed at Easterns...
...seems more like a president than a monarch, and is reminiscent of the well-loved but invalid FDR. Costuming by Holly Maples (a B.U. student) also lends a hand to creating the atmosphere of America 50 years ago: for the wealthy ladies, dresses you'd expect to see on Greta Garbo; for the less affluent girls, simpler, plainer dresses suitable for Betty Crocker. The most charming detail is the plaid suitcases that were the rage in the 1940s, carried by characters costumed as traveling salespeople...
...like we've been stabbed in the back," said Greta Harnisha, operator of the "Toy Box" kiosk...
...LOVE: Greta Garbo's 1935 turn as Anna Karenina was faithful to Leo Tolstoy: Anna indeed ends her life under the wheels of a passing passenger train. But in 1927 she appeared in a silent-movie adaptation, which, in one version, concluded with Anna reunited with her lover Vronsky after the convenient death of her husband...