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...Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when the year-opening grand slam kicks off in Melbourne next week...
...Actress (Showtime). Kirstie Alley's semi-autobiographical comedy could have been a brave, scalding look at how Hollywood treats women. Instead it was an unfunny, predictable vanity project that managed to be self-pitying and self-aggrandizing at the same time...
...some of the requisite skills to being a semi-competent chair? I was horribly persistent and wrote a scrut. I learned so much in my editing sessions with Rachel E. Dry ’04, listening quietly as she and Liz F. Maher ’04 talked in the office. But also, I shot for associate editor and got it. And in my year as associate, I learned: in the production suite, in the newsroom, in the FM office. I watched in awe as Mollie H. Chen ’05 worked her organizational magic, and as Sarah...
There's nothing sexy about bad publicity. Victoria's Secret has had its fair share over the years, usually fueled by critics of the retail company's suggestive lingerie ads or semi-nude fashion show, which returned this month after a two-year hiatus. But now the attacks are coming from a bunch of tree huggers in suits. Forest Ethics, an environmental-advocacy group, has launched a national campaign of protests, including some 150 last month at Victoria's Secret stores around the country...
...also may have been drawn to the group for personal reasons. Barusch, who wore a white dress shirt and tie to FM’s semi-formal dinner event this weekend, identifies herself as neither male nor female. “She knows who she is and doesn’t feel the need to tell other people,” says Ayodola A. Adigun ’06, Barusch’s roommate for three years. “Margaret believes it’s no one else’s concern what gender...