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...This fall, there was a girl in Florida who posted many pictures of her minimally clad self that somehow led to an invitation to appear in Playboy. The probability that this will happen to you is probably right up there with the probability that you will avoid contracting some odd disease after jumping off the Weeks Footbridge into the Charles. Not good...
...pressure to live up to the expectations of dad’s ghost. As the business sinks into financial problems, Price unexpectedly meets Lola and soon is inspired to make sexy boots with heels that won’t break under the weight of the man. Thus a truly odd couple attempts to save Price & Sons, and it’s far too easy to guess what happens when Lola invades Northampton...
...like ancient history. But it is a testament to both the Catholic church?s durability and continuity and the speed of the modern news cycle that the only man in white on our minds now is Pope Benedict, while images of the same Ratzinger in cardinal red appear almost odd and outdated. For Catholicism, this is a necessary thing. The church counts on the very earthly process of an election - aided by the grandeur of church rituals and the weight of its history - to pass on its highest powers from one man to the next with just a puff...
...Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects and a metronomic beating heart underscored the poetry and contributed to the piece’s ominous air. “In,” a jaunty duet performed and choreographed Todorova and Tufts freshman Bistra Solakova, was decidedly more upbeat than its predecessor, but not exactly...
...would have liked to be a woman living in the country with lots of horses and dogs. Even today, one of her greatest pleasures is owning racehorses and nipping out to watch the 2:35 at Cheltenham on TV. Most likely, the concept of liking her job would seem odd to her. Prince Andrew explains: "People say to me, 'Your life must be very strange.' But of course I've not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me. The same way with the Queen. She has never experienced anything else. That life, that knowledge, that wisdom...