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...stealing over $90,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, much of the campus (and many of The Crimson’s editorial columnists) couldn’t help but speculate and gossip about the scandal. Prosecutors charge the pair with using the stolen funds to finance “lavish lifestyles” and Gomes’ expensive drug habit. Rumors about past extravagances and transgressions—like Pomey’s open-bar 21st birthday bash, financed by Gomes, or Pomey’s less than honest behavior as business manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Highlights | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Students began the practice of gathering in their rooms for “spreads, “ feasts that grew more lavish and elanorate throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Bacchanal to the Banal: 351 Harvard Commencements | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

...White points out that some of the cooking expertise in the African-American community was not happily obtained. "We cooked so much on the plantation and the big house," she says. "We cooked so much in our early days - we cooked for Thomas Jefferson at those wonderful, lavish feasts that he had; we cooked on the Pullman railroad trains. I think we did pretty much the majority of the cooking in this country until the early '50s. Because we do have such a long history of cooking, with the rise of the black bourgeoisie, one of the things that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Brown Sugar and Buzz | 5/28/2002 | See Source »

...Indonesia became G.O. "members," investing in the firm's schemes based on promises they could double or triple their savings. Until his operation unraveled earlier this year, Ogami, 39, had collected a total of $400 million, according to former G.O. Group executives, which he used to finance a lavish lifestyle, expand overseas and buy the offshore bank in the Philippines. He even financed his own action movie, Blades of the Sun, featuring himself in the starring role playing opposite a Filipina starlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Con | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...towns. Swing ranked it the best place to be an artist, and Girlfriends called it one of the best places to be a lesbian. Cianci is particularly proud of a renovation that saved a Colonial Revival mansion called the Casino from demolition and restored it as a center for lavish public events. "It was a piece of crap in 1970," he says as he stands on the back veranda. "I actually toyed with making it a mayor's house, but I didn't have the balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Buddy Beat The Rap? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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