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...friends from last year are living on campus," says Randi S. Reich, a second-year at HBS. "I have the feeling it my friends had decided to move off campus, I would have as well...
...Rosa couldn't find any objective evidence that it works or that these so-called energy fields even exist. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing--something they haven't been eager to do, even though the magician-turned-debunker James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (He's had one taker so far. She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth...
...there's potential celebrity. Industry insiders believe JonBenet was being groomed for greater things--talk-show appearances, modeling gigs, commercials, even television sitcom and movie roles. The California contests are particularly popular because talent scouts and casting agents often use them to search for new faces. Six-year-old Randi Anderson, a "Miss Citrus Heights," "Golden Carousel National Queen," "Universal Miss Supreme Beauty," and "Miss American Beauty" who has been on the circuit for only a year and a half, already has a thriving modeling career, and has had her face on the cover of Sacramento magazine...
...many parents insist it is the child (usually a girl, although there are "Little Beau" events for boys) who is lured by the limelight. When Randi Anderson entered her first pageant, at age four, "she was so shy that when the other girls came out she put her head down," says her mother Pattie. "She didn't win the competition, and she was very upset with herself. My husband said to her, 'You don't have to do this anymore.' She looked up and said, 'But I want to do it.'" Before Lisa Iverson could even walk, she would crawl...
...nothing else, Rules Girls have a spirit of adventure. "Sherrie and Ellen assure me that it works," says Randi, a California Rules Girl. "I'll try something else if it doesn't." An attitude like that is music to the ears of self-help authors everywhere...