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...this conventional notion to the test in the style of MTV’s Room Raiders. We challenged Wesley H. Kauble ’06 to choose a dream date out of a pool of eager sweethearts based solely on their interpretations of standard-issue university housing. Kauble, a lightweight rower and Undergraduate Council dynamo, purchased a car dealership with his winnings on NBC’s Weakest Link in his junior year of high school. But can a wide array of interests and experiences help him correctly decipher his true love based on her underwear drawer...
That's why Republicans who have watched Kerry up close warn that Bush shouldn't consider him a liberal lightweight who can be boxed up and buried. "That's a prescription for disaster in November," says Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel. "He is a seasoned, smart, tough, articulate campaigner who has a pretty strong record to offer the American people. And that's the way [Republicans] better take...
Ryan Seacrest knows what you think of him. Knows it, because he pretty much thinks the same thing. Lightweight? "Let's face it," he says of his TV-hosting career. "It's not brain surgery." Superficial pretty boy? When The Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie told him, on his new syndicated daytime show On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, that her most important possession was her flatiron, he replied, "Oh, sister, trust me, I know. It's the only thing I have in my bathroom. That and Cosmo...
Seacrest, 29, delivers all this with his signature grin--bright, square-jawed, as wide as the grille on a '65 Cadillac--because lightweight and superficial have been very, very good to him. He spent a decade apprenticing, first in local Atlanta radio, then doing gigs on a kids' version of American Gladiators, Talk Soup and Extra. Now he has parlayed his Idol success into a pop-trifle trifecta. While still the host of Fox's smash talent hunt, which returns this week, he has also taken over the radio institution American Top 40 from host Casey Kasem, and last week...
ENGINE The Wrights couldn't find an engine that met their needs, so they had one built from lightweight aluminum. Propellers were connected to the engine by a chain-and-sprocket transmission that resembled a bicycle...