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MENTION PARISIAN JEWELER VAN CLEEF & ARPELS to an expert, and he or she will rhapsodize about the company's enhancement of stones with the minimum use of metal, and its famous clientele, including such style icons as Marlene Dietrich, Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. But the real gem of Van Cleef is the craftsmanship?the seemingly invisible settings, and the sway and movement in the designs. Today the pieces are created as intricately as they were when the house, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, opened. All the high jewelry pieces are still made...
...hours of questioning and debate, UC member Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 introduced an amendment to change the UC’s funding of Mission Hill from nothing to $2,000. Greenfield said after the meeting that “$2,000 would be really the minimum amount for the folks from Mission Hill to be able to go in and do what they do.” The amended resolution passed in a vote of 26 in favor to 11 against, with two abstentions. After the meeting, UC President John S. Haddock ’07 said...
...SENTENCED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, 61, a.k.a. Gary Glitter, flamboyant British rocker famous for 1970s hits such as I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am!), who was convicted of molesting two underage Vietnamese girls, both 11 at the time; to the minimum sentence of three years in prison; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Gadd, who has maintained his innocence, was convicted in 1999 of possessing child pornography in Britain and in 2002 was expelled from Cambodia after he came under suspicion of pedophilia. He will be eligible for parole as soon as November...
...drawl and intentionally uneven overdubs, the album is a smartly assembled piece of Southern pop-rap. All of the tracks are the same tempo, but they prevent boredom by keeping it short-it’s only 12 songs. Jermaine Dupri keeps his garbage Diddy-esque cameos to a minimum. I can’t hate...
...academic fields. Each interview lasts two or three hours as the search committee tries to narrow down the field. The Corporation imposes a strict policy of secrecy, and none of the presidential potentials are informed that they are, in fact, candidates. As a result, campaigning is kept to a minimum.“If you’re qualified, the Committee will show up at your doorstep,” says Graff.Initial meetings take place in the offices of interviewees, but as the search proceeds, candidates are flown to law offices and hotel suites to maintain the veil of secrecy...