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...will be tested on focus groups before MoveOn decides when and where to air them on TV. They're the brainchild of Laura Dawn, a singer who often appears with techno-rock star Moby (who wrote the music for one of the spots). Dawn, 34, who works from her apartment in New York City's East Village, last year came up with the "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest, in which average Americans were asked to submit anti-Bush ads. "The idea was that if we did really well with the contest, we could do this afterward," says Dawn. Hollywood responded...
...early 1980s saw the collapse of the oil industry in Midland, Texas) and his marriage was strained by his heavy drinking, Bush did not find the strength he needed in the emotionally austere rituals with which he had been raised or in the Sunday-morning services he and Laura attended regularly. Instead, he relied on a series of personal encounters, small group study and, most important, in the summer of 1985, a fateful beach walk with Graham--a man, Bush recalled in his memoirs, who "didn't make you feel guilty; he made you feel loved...
Despite the perils, however, the sport can be relaxing. Says Laura Meyers, 39, a sponsored kiteboarder from Miami who competes against women half her age: "You can ride leisurely or make it as extreme as you want...
...climax to the 2000 trio of Encores! shows, "Wonderful Town" was a palpable hit: ecstasy in the audience, a rave from New York Times critic Ben Brantley for the 42-year-old Murphy and 19-year-old Laura Benanti. (Another gifted starlet coming off of a the train.) At the Saturday night performance I ran into Harvey Weinstein, the Miramax Films co-chairman who has backed such Broadway shows as "The Producers," "Sweet Smell of Success," Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme," and who would win an Oscar for Best Picture when he produced the 2002 movie version of "Chicago" (directed...
This year several females were appointed to junior faculty positions. Thirty-seven percent of junior offers made were to women, according to Associate Dean for Faculty Development Laura G. Fisher...