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...loathe to admit it, he puts up a vain and pompous front - "Don't touch my hair" he screams - that only his chums can get through. Craig and Mac wonder if Neil, a notorious womanizer whose painting career seems to have reached a ceiling, is marrying a wealthy semi-celebrity for the right reasons. Rob, the smart-mouthed, black sheep brother with a history of drug abuse and jail time, rounds out the troubled quartet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stupor Friends | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...local muezzin merges with the chimes from a Hindu temple and drifts skyward. The brilliant-hued canopy above me flaps lazily in the evening breeze that blows in from the Indian Ocean. I'm dining in the roofless rooftop restaurant of the Emerson & Green hotel on Zanzibar, the semi-autonomous island off Tanzania, one of the most romantic spots on the planet. Once the opulent palace of a wealthy Swahili trader, the hotel has just 10 rooms, but each one is exquisite: the North room features a large stone bath built into an open-air veranda with views across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heaven Is a Hotel | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

Concentration: Psychology or pre-med, she seems like a semi-serious person, but also knows how to have...

Author: By John K. Ames, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: iTunes Dialogue | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

Last concert attended: I totally don’t go to enough. I saw Guster and Medeski, Martin and Wood over the summer. I forget where, though. Oh, and I also saw The Stars Essex Green at TT’s and the Bear’s semi-recently. That must have been during the school year sometime...

Author: By John K. Ames, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: iTunes Dialogue | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

Sandra Lee's forte does not include pig rearing, and the home-craft maven, who made her mark on QVC selling curtains, doesn't sew a stitch if she can avoid it. Yet Semi-Homemade is broad in other directions, encompassing, for example, romance in a "Sexy in Seventeen Minutes" feature in its online magazine. There she advises fans to spend minute 14 brushing Pixy Stix candy powder over chest and cleavage to "take even the busiest multitasker from tired to tantalizing." Such are the warmth and zeal of Lee that you almost believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be The Next Domestic Diva? | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

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