Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital campaign exactly because of their displeasure with the status of women here. These women have seen that the best way to get your voice heard at Harvard is to use the megaphone or a large check. Hopefully more alumnae and alumni will see this endowment as a model for how to advance the cause of female scholarship at Harvard...
...fiscal adventures of a boy to the cash register born. With his older brother Dan (now 40 and CEO of Hambrecht & Quist, an investment firm that specializes in technology), Case started his first business before he had fully mastered a bicycle. The venture was a variation on a classic model: converting backyard lemons to lemonade. Next the brothers started Case Enterprises, which peddled everything from seeds to watches. Case Enterprises stumbled--"I can't understand why no one wanted to buy Swiss watches from a 12-year-old and an 11-year-old," Dan jokes--but it gave the boys...
...often conducted himself with an embarrassing lack of gravitas. Although he received good grades as a student at Eton and then at Oxford University, he was dubbed "Champagne Charlie" by the press for his partying ways. In 1989, at 25, Spencer became engaged to Victoria Lockwood, a fashion model whom he had known for just 10 days. Serving as best man at his wedding was Spencer's Oxford chum Darius Guppy, who was later imprisoned for staging a jewelry theft intended to collect $2.8 million in insurance money from Lloyd's of London. Spencer has stuck by Guppy, first supplying...
...postponed. In Cape Town Spencer has found himself the subject of some scandal. He had been seeing South African fashion designer Chantal Collopy, whose husband brought suit against the earl for ruining their marriage after his wife left him. More recently, Spencer has been linked to another South African, model and fashion editor Josie Borain...
...finds its model in the communal comedies of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges: films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Hail the Conquering Hero, in which a mild-mannered, small-town fellow is unfairly ostracized or lionized, and in which the prejudices of the vox pop are silenced in the last reel. Here it's a graduation-day ceremony that angrifies into a town meeting and then into a coming-out party. Everyone is happy, everyone...