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...early 90s, this phrase was almost entirely confined to the set of “Melrose Place” and to aerobics classes filled with expectant mothers wearing ASICS and sporting flimsy nylon gym bags.  It was eventually adopted by 50-year-old divorcée art gallery owners with raspy smoker’s voices who wear sunglasses inside and keep their dogs inside their stores.  You know the type of person I’m talking about?  Take your average HAA concentrator, minus the subtle pedantic braggadocio and flowing scarf...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hate It: "Let's Do Lunch!" | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

Flying back from Italy and walking into an office building less than 72 hours later was definitely not my idea of la dolce vita, and maybe part of the reason why my watch was still set to Italian time...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clocking the Hours | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...this performance. Any suspense about the internal play's success is muted by the performance's very existence. Once the premise is established—here are four friends sitting on four chairs in a New York City apartment trying to achieve their dream—the expectations are set for a show that has cloyingly put a keyboardist, Larry (Will McGarrahan), in the corner of the apartment space to acknowledge as its self-awareness sees...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "[title of show]" Goes Meta, To Mediocre Results | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...before his plane was set to leave, Coach Turner passed away...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brady Throws His Way Into Stardom | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...easy to dismiss, however. As newspapers and opposition politicians in South Africa were quick to point out, there is nothing responsible about having unprotected sex or an extramarital affair in a country with the world's biggest HIV/AIDS population, currently numbering more than 4 million. Zuma's behavior has "set us back at least a decade in the fight against HIV/AIDS," said a stern-faced Helen Zille, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Party. In an editorial, the Business Day newspaper worried that Zuma's casual attitude to marriage may carry over to his view of government. "If the president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Africa, a Scandal Over All the President's Children | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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