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Alexander Pring-Wilson, a former student at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is charged with stabbing 18-year-old Michael Colono to death last April after an early morning altercation outside a local pizza parlor...
Robbin Mitchell, a Ralph Lauren VP of “replenishment,” stands at a podium in the downstairs parlor of the Harvard Faculty Club, where a Polo recruitment info session is being held. She wears a black blazer, and her hair is tied in a skinny ponytail. With the grace of an academic, Mitchell lectures a group of eager undergraduates about Polo’s Executive Training Program for graduating seniors and summer internship for sophomores and juniors...
...house boasts bedrooms for 10, two kitchens, several bathrooms, a basement, a parlor and a few rooms with purposes that have not yet been determined...
...ground floor parlor is already set up with two leather couches opposite a functional fireplace—a likely source of envy for students who live in dorm rooms featuring fireplaces that cannot be used without violating College rules. Garlic bread lies strewn across the countertops (they regularly use the kitchens) alongside other remnants of a pasta dinner: streaks on tomato sauce bowls, strands of cold spaghetti...
...flinging one-liners all the way, to that place in her head where it seemed like a simply terrific idea--terrific!--to get a tattoo, cut off her hair and convert to Judaism, preferably Orthodox, though not before heading to Mexico with that muscular ex-con from the tattoo parlor. Which is how she ends up in Tijuana, knocked silly on OxyContin and slumped in a pool of her own vomit. The Best Awful (Simon & Schuster; 269 pages) can be a very funny book, but generally the laughs come hard...