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...competitions. In Bombay earlier this month, for example, 16 women tramped up and down a lumpy catwalk in a damp, steamy tent vying for the title Miss Monsoon. "Please watch out for holes in the carpet," warned the choreographer during a run-through. "We don't want any falls." Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Alvares, one of 150 applicants, explained, "This is a real stepping-stone for me. Maybe someone will spot me here...
...snagging that corner office and the big house on Elmwood, think about that L word: legacy. Remember Radcliffe's leader in the Forties and Fifties, Wilbur Jordan? Seventeen years in office, and all he got were some lousy tract houses on Shepard Street named after him. Nathan Pusey got a pile of books stored underground. If Rudy doesn't snag the Memorial Hall Tower, I say grab it. Or how about the Fineberg Forest? Start brainstorming, Harvey. A presidency is a terrible thing to waste...
...college and America was barely a nation, a gang of juniors relaxing in Nymphas Hatch's dorm room decided to form their own special society. After a successful year of Yankee-doodling congregations, the group decided their society should live on after their graduation and they elected "to admit seventeen of the most worthy members of the junior class." They wrote a constitution establishing weekly dinners and annual celebrations in honor of George Washington. The club's productive signature soon developed: the musical comedy with the male cast that has featured the likes of William F. Weld '66 and Oliver...
...percent off antiques) arenit enough to entice customers to this new-fangled combination store, then perhaps the thought of browsing through lamps and bric-a-bracs while waiting for a wash-and-blow-dry might draw people in. Indeed the antique collectibles provide quite the alternative to browsing through Seventeen. This side business has actually proved highly profitable for the storeowner. One woman who came to About Hair for a routine haircut actually left with untouched locks and an $800 antique bureau...
...Carson looks bigger than he does on my small-screen TV, wearing a lot more makeup and even more hair gel. He seems pretty smooth, reading over his lines and joking with the crew, and with Kelly. I know that all the girls are remembering their earmarked pages of Seventeen that declared the much hoped-for break-up of Carson and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The girl sitting next to Soman calls a hesitant Carson over...