Word: ms
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Last Sunday, we paid another visit to directress/raconteur Erica Werner in her faux-Titian dorm room. Outside it was cold and dreary, but inside we found Ms. Werner in fine fettle, cooing merrily at her Bonsai tree. Clad in a chain-metal sheath and matching elbow-length gloves, both by Gaultier, with hair by Vidal Sassoon, Ms. Werner discoursed savvily on topic ranging from the Knights Templar to the common cold. As always, we were impressed by her smarts. But we were not where we were--that is, in the presence of genius disguised as high fashion--to engage...
...MS. WERNER: I'd be delighted. I'm pleased that you're interested. That's what I'm here for: to nurture a spark of interest in people that they in turn will be able to fashion into...
...Walters charged that the greater noise caused by fans on the building's roof has become unbearable. since last fall's expansion of the labs. Ms. Walter said she has even had trouble sleeping...
...Ever since the construction of a large greenhouse I have been subjected to a relentless stream of noise coming from the fans at the biology labs," Ms. Walter wrote in a letter to Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall last November. "The level of nighttime noise, as measured by both the City of Cambridge and by Harvard's private acoustical contractor, exceeds legal limits...
...asks that each time a magazine is read, acheck be put next to its title. According to thelist, Mather's most commonly read magazine isCosmopolitan. With 16 checks, Cosmo--a magazinewhich depicts women as shiny, frisky boy toys--ismore popular than even People, which comes in aclose second. Meanwhile, Ms., the feministmonthly, boasts a scant 3 checks. On anotherfront, it looks as if Mather's age-old war betweenburly athletes and computer hackers is being wonby the latter. MacUser--which depicts computers asshiny, frisky boy toys--has been checked twice asmany times as Sports Illustrated, a perennial jockfavorite...