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Backlash or no backlash, there will always be snotty girls who confuse pretentiousness for coolness, pretentiousness for obnoxiousness. But even though the girl is clearly on crack, we can forgive her, right? After all, she does plug my column...
...social phenomenon, one we're most aware of when we're just starting out here and our social roles are up for grabs. In the first year, most of us carefully feel our way around this place, trying to become familiar with the environment before we plug ourselves into it. For others, graduation might just as well be around the corner because they spend most of their time trying get ahead as quickly (and as unapologetically) as possible. But then there is another group who, like the go-getters, are also quite confident about their place at Harvard--which, they...
...Seekers of the Perfect Cup, from the people who made the vente mocha Frappuccino as ubiquitous as the Big Mac, comes Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into...
...Last week, I thought I had left Hollywood when I boarded a plane at LAX and landed in Amarillo, Texas. Since my upcoming rollicking profile of Charlize Theron (Hollywood is also where you're allowed to shamelessly plug) wasn't due until this week, I had taken a brief hiatus from my showbiz beat to chronicle the latest troubling chapter in America's drug war. In the summer of 1999, 43 residents of Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug...
...pulling the plug the only solution? John Wilson, senior vice president of programming services at PBS, points out that his two children love books, are active and eat dinners with their parents. They also watch TV. "What if I did all these things and watched TV sensibly?" he asks. "Then I would have the best of both worlds...