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...Inouye wasn’t alone: the Daily also turned up priceless pearls from Tufts sophomore Lauren Amira, who told the paper that at Tufts, “Harvard seems like an elite society where, once you get in, everything is handed to you on a silver platter...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Harvard Syndrome | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...negotiate fares upon entry. Insist that the meter runs on single tariff while in Athens. Best Come-back: Benaki Museum. If you have time for only one museum stop, this Neo-classical landmark is the place to go. Open again after a 12-year renovation, the museum has a priceless collection spanning Hellenism?s 5,000 years. 1 Koumbari Street. Tel: +30 1 36 71 000. Admission: $4.50. wrought-iron balconies, and you'll find craftsmen like Constantine Petropoulos, 88, repairing some of the world's oldest gramophones. Walk into the workshop of Dimitris Kokkinelis, one of the last chalcographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traditionally Trendy | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...tour. Not just the fans, money and amazing backbiting between players, but, without ever saying it, the grueling monotony and loneliness of being an itinerant athlete. But he also fits in the drama of a play-by-play and the tension of the locker room. And he includes priceless bits of Anna-tude, like when Kournikova, at a Wimbledon press conference sponsored by Berlei bras, which endorses her, responded to a question about her engagement with "My private life is private. I'm here to talk about my bras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venus Envy By L. Jon Wertheim | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Many of the hundreds of inscriptions date from about the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. Although the oldest ones were carved several centuries after the Queen's lifetime, they contain priceless information about her kingdom's political and social history, including a chronology of Sabaean kings (the first that researchers have found), as well as the names of other important visitors to Mahram Bilqis and their genealogies and tribal affiliations. Since some of the names are female, one of them could be that of the Queen of Sheba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Sheba | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...John Peterman was the ultimate purveyor of armchair-adventure shopping. His floridly written catalog pulled in a cult following--and $75 million a year in sales--by hawking evocative clothing, furniture and collectibles to upscale shoppers. Peterman outfitted Frank Sinatra and Oprah Winfrey and got a priceless p.r. boost when the TV megahit Seinfeld parodied him on its show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peterman Reboots | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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