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...celebrity culture. Club Libby Lu, a fast-growing chain of mall stores owned by Saks, provides the setting and accessories for elaborate makeover parties for girls as young as 4 at a relatively reasonable $21 a head. They can strut down a catwalk, don mock Madonna headset microphones and pester their parents to buy Role Model perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver's license. As popular culture...
...have decided to pester some of my Latin lockermates by incessantly picking their brains in the hopes of learning Spanish. Of my practice group of nine, six players exclusively speak Spanish, one player exclusively speaks Korean, and the other is my roommate who I already have gotten to know well...
...struggled with his shooting since returning from a hand injury for the start of the Ivy season—just 19-of-46 (41 percent) from the floor in the four league games after shooting 48 percent in the non-conference schedule. Teams who utilize the double team to pester the 7’0 center are now faced with the threat of losing track of Goffredo, who can spot up behind the arc and wait for the pass from inside...
...offensive and defensive statistical category. In goals per game, Brown’s mark of two goals per game—adding three in handily defeating the Crimson—is the best. To back up that offensive domination, the Bears manage 7.10 shots on goal per game to pester opposing goalies into submission, including eight on Harvard goalie Ryan Johnson yesterday.Finally, their 0.6 goals allowed mark—again bettered by their dominating shutout of the Crimson—is leaps and bounds above the rest of the league.“[Brown] has a certain style...
Question: What do 3,614 journalists do in a picturesque Swiss city when a couple of bigwig visitors declare a news blackout? Answer: They pester government spokesmen about whether Ronald Reagan was secretly recording his talks with Mikhail Gorbachev (no) and how Nancy Reagan coped with the cold (long underwear). In this summit of images, the quintessential picture of the press may have been the pack that gathered around the President as he walked into a reception held by the Swiss government. "Have you agreed on anything?" they shouted. "Can't say," Reagan replied puckishly, throwing up his hands...