Word: hudsons
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...protagonist, Steven Hudson, is a powerful N.Y. investment banker. Like Perkins, Steven receives a letter asking him to be the star in a reality television show called “Trophy Bride” where young, female 20-somethings compete to marry a “zillionaire.” After repeated assertions about the absurdity of the offer, Steven ends up agreeing to do the show—partially because he is lonely after his wife’s passing and partially because he falls in love with the producer of the show, Jessie Jones...
KRISTINA M. MOORE ’08 of Croton on Hudson, N.Y. and Dunster House Arts Chair...
...version of the musical Dreamgirls, director Bill Condon had one worry: "I needed to know she could become a restrained, sedate character," he says. Once the singer proved she could put a clamp on the amps, Condon picked Tony winner ANIKA NONI ROSE, left, and American Idol's JENNIFER HUDSON to fill out the Dreams, a 1960s group loosely based on the Supremes. None of the stars has seen the 1980s musical, but no matter. The dramas that show-biz women endure are timeless...
...professors should not be activists, but to lament a situation where an entire department falls into the uniformity of a similar worldview. For then students lose out from not being exposed to a proper diversity of perspectives. Columbia has been nicknamed the “Bir-Zeit on the Hudson,” after the Palestinian educational institution. We are content enough with the “Kremlin on the Charles” nickname of yesteryear to prevent us from desiring a new epithet. Islamic Studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is as virgin as it is significant. Textual...
...last week, the first time it's reached that mark since 1987, a sign that inflation may be heating up. To avoid that, the Federal Reserve has been boosting rates for two years, making all borrowed money more expensive. That troubles Jodi Legge, 41, of Hudson, Wis., who expects that her home-equity debt is going to cost more every month. So she and her husband Ed are sticking to the holiday budget they agreed on. Still, "we haven't cut back," Jodi says, although she's redirecting money to more practical places...