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Hometown: Newton, Mass...
More than six colors, fifty-four squares, and countless hours of frustration, Camann claims the Rubix cube could be the key to unlocking your inner Einstein. The Cube brought the Newton teenager a 12th place finish at the World Rubix’s Game Championships—and stellar grades in ninth-grade English. “One time I had a vocabulary test,” Camann he says, “and I memorized all the 24 words in five minutes.” Give him three hours and he’ll absorb 1440 vocabulary words...
Back in the audience before the film starts, there’s a debate whether a post-makeover Campbell, who works the overnight shift at a chain hotel in Newton, can wear her current outfit of pink crushed-velvet turtleneck and black miniskirt to work tonight. “My manager is okay with my cross-dressing, but I’d probably have to wear a regulation white blouse,” Campbell reflects...
...more tricky. Is it excusable to “wrestle to the ground first, ask questions later” when surprised from behind? Should one hold doors open for Yalies? FM enlists the help of Jodi R. R. Smith (Ms. Mannersmith), founder and president of Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting in Newton, Mass., to ensure that Harvard also wins the battle of manners. Ms. Mannersmith has been the guest of honor at Women in Business’s etiquette dinner for the past three years and has worked with the Quad Houses to spread her gospel of courtesy down Garden Street. According...
...didn't tell your record company what you were up to. I was afraid I'd end up doing, you know, Olivia Newton-John...