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...most important impact may be the one nearest the hearts of many of Bush's core voters: the ability to clear the President's nominees through the Judiciary Committee. Judge Priscilla Owen, a Bush pick for the federal circuit court, probably would have won confirmation by the full Senate had the vote ever come to the floor; majority leader Tom Daschle made sure it never did. "For a lot of our base voters, this is the biggest issue out there," says an outside adviser to Bush's political team. "If we don't deliver, they won't work as hard...
...only Harvard woman with the winning combination of brains and beauty. Beginning in August 1957 as “The 10 Best-Dressed College Girls in America,” the contest has attracted a plethora of Harvard’s finest. One of the 1957 winners, Radcliffe graduate Priscilla Bowden ’61, was the first woman accepted to the editorial staff of The Crimson. Glamour quoted a Princeton man describing Bowden as “an Ivy intellectual...but so pretty, it doesn’t matter.” Radcliffe winners in the early...
...stylist, who envisaged a “boho-chic” shoot surrounded by red desert sands, we drove 15 hours from Sydney to a town in the middle of the Australian outback incidentally made famous as the location where the drag-queen epic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was filmed. Staying at the only available “hotel” (a run-down pub known affectionately to the bushie locals as “Mario’s Palace”) and working in 100-degree temperatures in a dust bowl, the stylist still managed...
...Priscilla Painton deftly led the team of more than 50 people around the world who worked on this issue for the past four months. Eric Pooley, Janice Simpson, MaryAnne Golon and D.W. Pine were her four lieutenants, editing stories, assigning photographers and designing the pages. For our cover, we wanted an elegant image that conveyed the power of 9/11 without shouting, so Arthur Hochstein assigned the task to artist Robert Rauschenberg. I think his collage, with its layering of news photos and flowers, preserves the moment beautifully. I hope you agree...
...been suggested, manic-depressive, or bipolar. When he died in 1977 from a cardiac arrhythmia, his finances were in wild disarray, he was overweight and (it is believed) he had been abusing alcohol and prescription drugs for years. His private life was also a mess; his marriage to Priscilla Presley had hit the rocks four years earlier...