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...writer James Wolcott couldn’t help but be impressed by the twins and their aura, concluding that, “Unlike the Bush daughters or the Hilton sisters, who always look as if they were about to pop out of a bachelor-party cake, M-K and Ash, as they’re known in the hood, are modest, demure, able to walk without weaving.” The very fact that Vanity Fair interviewed the twins in the first place is telling of the indelible mark they have made on American culture...
...behind M-K and Ash is 16 year-old Hilary Duff, also known as Lizzie McGuire from the Disney Channel television series and feature film. In addition to her media career expansion into music—her album Metamorphosis was released this summer and catchy single “So Yesterday” continues to climb top-40 charts—Duff now also serves as the spokesperson for an organization that protects wild horses. And though the “So Yesterday” lyrics tell the heart-wrenching tale of a love lost and soon to be forgotten...
...MERRYMAN
Berkeley, Calif.
Ambassadors at Work. Morrison-Knudsen leads them all. Last week an M-K crew was in the Brazilian jungle expanding the Cubatao hydroelectric project to give the city of São Paulo 400,000 more kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet...
...sense of accomplishment seemed to be bigger than all the troubles. M-K finds that it can get good men to work overseas for little more than they make at home, partly because they usually pay no income taxes. But they also seem to get satisfaction out of helping backward peoples help themselves...