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PARIS HILTON, 25, was delivered unto us famous. Quite what she did to get to fame is a mystery. How she stays there is a master class in marketing: there are Paris Hilton--branded perfumes, jewelry, books and dance clubs (on deck: Paris Hilton's debut CD). So why not, then, a new cell-phone-based video game, which the hotel heiress introduced at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles? "Sorry, I'm late," Hilton told the crush of ardent fans and photographers who had been waiting more than an hour for her. "I'm really excited...
...audience, absorbed by Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack?s very fine documentary about our era?s master builder. There are critics? represented in the documentary by a rather shifty-looking academic?who would resist that rather grandiose description of Gehry. But the truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
...Lamont Café and Loker Pub, FAS has been cutting money elsewhere—including the elimination of the Group III budget, a $200,000 fund for renovating the Houses.“This is the problem when times are tough,” said Robert P. Kirshner, the master of Quincy House. “Even things that are valuable and good sometimes are trimmed.”Kirshner, the Clowes professor of science, said that several projects, including a renovation of the Quincy Grille’s ventilation system, will go on despite the reduction in funds.The impact...
Samer El Hajj, 26 NEW ORLEANS He was there for a reunion of the International College of Hospitality Management. Instead, he got a three-day master class in crisis control in a Sheraton hotel with no air conditioning. "This experience was the worst to live through compared to all I have seen during the Lebanese war ... The mayor couldn't manage to find...
...America is a fascinating region of the world confronting the most significant issues of our time that have to do with economic growth, with the emergence and sustainability of democracy, with issues of equality,” said Grindle, who is the faculty chair of KSG’s Master in Public Administration program. “It’s a place where people have consistently been willing to think of creative solutions to some of these problems and to experiment with them.” Since its founding in 1994, DRCLAS has flourished under Coatsworth?...