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Last February, Harvard got introduced to a peculiar undergraduate with an even more peculiar plan when Matt di Pasquale ’09, a would-be collegiate Hugh Hefner, sent out a mass e-mail calling on “all hot Harvard girls” to bear their souls and bodies for his new magazine, Diamond. Well, now we know him better. Seven months later, the first issue of Diamond has hit the shelves and the results are astounding. Diamond is something like a journalistic version of the one-man-band: In this drama, di Pasquale is judge, jury...
Lewis worked hard and advanced quickly at NCNB. In 1985, when the bank's CEO Hugh McColl, asked him to move to Florida to run a string of branches, he reported to his new job in less than 24 hours. Through a series of purchases made by McColl, NCNB turned into NationsBank, which turned into Bank of America, which in time grew to become the nation's biggest retail bank, home loan provider and credit card issuer...
...covers every facet of Britain or the Brits. Americans don't know a lot about Britain. What we know is based on vacations that we've taken to London or books we've read or movies or TV shows like Masterpiece Theater for people a little bit older or Hugh Grant films for people a bit younger. People don't really know Brits, but they're fascinated by them. They think, to some extent, of Britain as the more refined, more polite, better version of themselves. And that's not necessarily accurate...
...Thanks to Hollywood's 2007-08 work stoppages, next summer so far looks light on blockbusters. J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and sequels to Harry Potter, Transformers and The Da Vinci Code will bring built-in audiences. Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up to Borat, may pique some interest, as should Pixar's Up. Still missing from the slate is anything to capture that female-over-40 Mamma Mia! spirit. Madonna, perhaps now's the time to pitch your jukebox musical...
...game's real storyline, though, centered around U.S. head coach Hugh McCutcheon, whose family suffered the first and only tragedy of these Games. The day after the Opening Ceremonies, the father of McCutcheon's wife Elisabeth was stabbed to death and her mother critically injured by a deranged and suicidal Chinese man at Beijing's Drum Tower. McCutheon left the team to be with his family, who flew back to the U.S. early last week. He returned on Aug. 17. Improbably and imperceptibly, the U.S. men worked its way through its draw, then beat Serbia in five sets to reach...