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...festive Jack-O-Larrys. With a pin of the pattern to the pumpkin, viola! Summers’ smirk glowed eerily throughout the night. December 4, 2003 FM got the scoop on Summers’ “low-carb, high-tennis” diet. Summers’ suddenly lean look shocked students, and FM was determined to get to the bottom of the sudden weight loss. The presidential secret was Atkins, with a good helping of cake and cookies on the side. “For this expert in deflation and fiscal-belt tightening, being the big man on campus...
...publishing division alone. "The mood was tense and increasingly dark," says Rose. "We were fearful of losing control of the company. It could have been snapped up on the cheap." A 2000 merger attempt with Warner Music was rejected by the E.U. as anticompetitive. But twice during the later lean years, the companies discussed a tie-up. (And now that their balance sheets are improving, merger speculation is rife again, though Levy says the two companies aren't in talks.) Levy and Rose still believed that the ultimate solution had to come through a digital strategy. In-house consumer research...
...what's not to like? After "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie" (the name of an actual Occidental College course), was there not a need for a doll that "looks like America"? Absolutely, but diverse is one thing, dissolute another. Most critics focus on the clothes, which lean past trendy to trashy: torn jeans, bare navels, platform shoes, microskirts with chains. It's easy to imagine that behind those pouting lips lies a pierced tongue. But that's not really the issue. You could strip them naked, re-outfit them from Cinderella Barbie's closet and still have a problem...
...film hit double figures in the nominations tally, because none of the front-runners was the sort of megaproduction or David Lean-style period piece that can run up a half-dozen citations in the categories devoted to technical expertise (sound editing) or frou-frou artistry (art direction, costumes). These are all "people" movies and "issue" movies...
...WHAT YOU EAT--AND DRINK Danish scientists staked out grocery stores and found that people who buy wine instead of beer also buy healthier foods. Wine buyers purchased more olives, fruits, vegetables, poultry, low-fat milk and lean meat. Beer buyers rang up more cold cuts, chips, sausages, butter and sodas...