Word: mia
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...unlike entertainment. Jared Greene '03 was delightfully serious as the misguided mystic, John, and James Crawford '03 nearly succeeded in ripping a character from the script's lifeless caricature, David. While they managed to salvage a performance from their script, others were simply overwhelmed. Caitlin Butler '03 (Tess) and Mia Lozada '03 (Malvolia) saw their talents go to waste, trapped within the confines of one-joke roles. Butler had to contend with well over half of her lines involving the living conditions of chickens, while Lozada was stymied by her character's Rumplestiltskian obsession over her name. Showcase cameos...
Indeed, promoter Bob Arum, who manages welterweight champ Oscar De La Hoya, dropped Lucia Rijker, considered to be among the sport's best fighters, and now sets bouts for an NFL cheerleader, a topless dancer and boxing's infamous Playboy cover girl Mia St. John. Known more for her pink hot pants than her ring skills, St. John takes home about the same per fight as Ali and Frazier-Lyde...
...Puffin's kin 2. Sale-tag phrase 3. Polly, to Tom 4. One of Mia's exes 5. HUD secretary who's proposing new laws to curb predatory lending practices 6. McCain's father and grandfather: Abbr. 7. Hole starter 8. NSX automaker 9. Its projected insolvency has been pushed back to 2023 10. Pay stub? 11. Machiavellian 16. Heights that Syria would like to recover 19. It may have an EIK 21. Novi __, Serbia 22. Alaska's first Governor 23. It's worth about a penny 24. He now wants to ban "soft money" 25. They want to resume...
...memory recedes at generational warp speed. Those who remember, remember. But a senior in college now was born three or four years after Saigon fell and changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City. I see the black POW-MIA flag still flying (though frayed) above a post office or police barracks in Massachusetts. No one raised an outcry of political correctness when John McCain referred some weeks ago to his North Vietnamese jailers as "gooks" - the feeling being, I guess, that his years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a pass...
...money to say no to," said ABBA alum Benny Andersson, "but we decided it wasn't for us." The overture came from a U.S.-British consortium that prefers to remain anonymous. Though ABBA disbanded in 1983, its popularity stubbornly soldiers on; sales of ABBA Gold remain strong, and Mamma Mia, a musical based on the band's songs, is currently playing to packed houses in London. Speculating on the band's endurance, former member Bjorn Ulvaeus said, "We have never made a comeback...I think there's a message in that...