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...that her father had sexually abused her as a child. She also described an incident in New York where a young fellow asked her if she wanted to go dancing and, when she got in his car, took her to a spot in Queens where she was forced to perform fellatio on a half-dozen...
...thousands of other bright young things, Bettie auditioned for plays and films, without success, and got a few minor roles in early live TV. One afternoon, on the Coney Island beach, she was approached by a young off-duty policeman and asked if she'd pose for some pictures. Perform? Why not? Thanks to the cop, Jerry Tibbs, Bettie received her first lessons in modeling. Tibbs also offered Bettie some prescient advice: Wear bangs. The new hairdo hid her high forehead, provided a straight-line frame for her round face and her pert lips. Voila! She now looked like Bettie...
...through Dec. 14.In the fanciful world of “Iolanthe,” an intermingling of members of Parliament and fairies spurs a commentary on politics hidden beneath a layer of hilarity and madness. According to director Benjamin T. Morris ’09, the group pushed to perform “Iolanthe” this semester for exactly that reason. “It’s traditionally a spring show, but the spring is a slightly smaller production,” he says. “We decided to do it in the fall this year...
...more slowly, theoretically allowing organisms to remain younger longer. “People may have an extended lifespan,” said Raul Mostoslavsky, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital who worked on the study. The protein, produced by a longevity gene called SIRT1, is known to perform two main jobs in yeast cells, according to Philipp Oberdoerffer, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the study’s lead author. He said that one job is to regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can?...
...have faced North Dakota since their freshman year, when the Crimson split a pair of games—a 1-0 victory followed by a 3-2 loss—with the Fighting Sioux at Grand Forks in December of 2005. “Everyone knows they have to perform,” Biega said. “If we can execute and win individually every battle all over the ice, we’re going to make a statement to the nation what kind of team we’re going to be down the road...