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...Then again, most publications are on an advertising diet. And Condé Nast's official position on Anna's employment is unambiguous. "This is something both [chairman] Si Newhouse and Anna Wintour have blankly denied," says spokesman Patrick O'Connell. But still the stories persist. Replacement names are bandied about: Carine Roitfeld from French Vogue is a favorite, with Amy Astley from Teen Vogue as a dark filly. The most recent reports are that all the rumors are merely the result of jostling during new contract negotiations between Wintour and Newhouse. (Read a 1988 TIME article about Wintour...
...women, Jonah C. Priour ’09 played an excellent Contini, portraying both pathetic midlife desperation and creative obsession all in a convincingly Italian accent. Attempting to take his mind off his troubles, Contini checks into a posh Venetian spa with his wife Luisa, but his worries persist. Refusing to confront his failing marriage and mired in artistic self-pity, he fantasizes about the other women in his life—his mistress Carla, his muse Claudia, the prostitute Sarraghina who taught him how to “Be Italian!” His apprehension about growing older...
...time they are 14. The unemployment rate for black men is estimated between 30 and 60%, and black people are seven times more likely to go to prison that white people. The greatest crime of all is that our politicians and policymakers can look at these numbers and persist in the ignorant and unjust policies that brought them about...
...Hare's big ideas aren't as revolutionary these days, but his liberal leanings persist. The heroes of his plays are the people left to clean up the messes made by those in power: "priests or policemen, social workers or teachers," he says. Where his earliest works urged the collapse of the capitalist system, his later works are less absolute, exploring "the necessary hypocrisies of public life." With the state of politics today, Hare won't be out of a job anytime soon. But, as he has discovered, sometimes audiences would rather focus on hope than hypocrisy. He frets that...
...born prematurely are indeed different in brain development," she says. "They actually don't have equivalent scores until about seven years of age. We will continue to follow these children until they are seven and we will be able to work out whether the effects seen at 18 months persist, and whether they are permanent...