Word: lapping
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...follows LB's Lauren Conrad to fashion school in L.A. She moves into a fabulous West Hollywood apartment, then interviews for and just happens to land an internship at Teen Vogue--you keep waiting for the scene in which a 10-carat diamond falls from the sky into her lap. With My Super Sweet 16 and Tiara Girls, The Hills completes a kind of MTV trilogy of princesshood. Yet it's hard not to like Conrad, if only because compared with her idle, spoiled friends, she's practically Horatio Alger. ("I have a full-time job!" says...
...outrage because it uses misinformation and disingenuous innuendo to discourage people from donating to a worthwhile cause. We invite Caldwell to participate in Relay for Life next April so that she can cheer the dozens of cancer survivors that take the first lap of our Relay and so that she can join in the luminaria ceremony in which participants decorate glowing bags in memory of loved ones lost to cancer. Caldwell calls this “razzle dazzle” and needless “fun.” We call it a community of support and a celebration...
...with her daughter Harper on her lap, she hammered out the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, a medical drama about three female and two male surgical interns in a fictional Seattle hospital. She stocked her pilot with the kind of complex, ambitious, clever, confused women she knew. And the guys? Actually, she didn't want them to be so very real. "They were my fantasy men," says Rhimes of Drs. Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), two more senior surgeons. "They got to say and do things that I wish men would...
Once the underdog in the microchip world to industry leader Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is enjoying a hard-won victory lap, thanks to its hot Opteron processors. A 70% jump over last year's first-quarter revenues has Dell turning its head; Google is already an AMD partner. Meanwhile, Intel sweats out every earnings call as some of its best customers defect. AMD's Hector Ruiz, CEO of the $6 billion chip company, spoke with TIME's COCO MASTERS about chip architecture, energy prices and doing battle with Intel...
...stop acting like you’re important.To keep everyone honest, we’ve decided to hand-pick our successors for this column. The competition was thick like Serena Williams’ booty, but we’re proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Bell Lap Contest: D.A. Wallach ’07 and Peter Martinez ’07. This Midwestern duo impressed us with their insightful guide to juicing graduate students, which revealed that the term “TF” originally stood for “Titty Fucking...