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Best Friends started on a shoestring and a smile in a bedroom of Bennett's Chevy Chase, Maryland, home nine years ago, and now operates in 29 public schools nationwide. Beginning in sixth grade, the Friends curriculum pounds into girls--through one-on-one sessions with mentors, dance classes, outings...
Harper's Bazaar has no explicit policy about whether its employees may receive free clothes. Conda Nast, which publishes Vogue, Mademoiselle, GQ and other glossy mags, prohibits its employees from accepting "expensive" gifts, but no dollar amount is specified. Such vague guidelines are easily gotten around by junior staff members...
The Care Net staff is almost entirely volunteer and operates on a shoestring; the Poughkeepsie center's annual budget is $59,000. Staff members must undergo 14 to 24 hours of in-house training before they can advise pregnant women. The pregnancy center does not dispense information about birth control...
Alex Cho '96, president of AAA, said he enjoyed the evening. But he noted that the busy lives of students and shoestring budgets of student groups often make such projects difficult.
Wishman's career bean making films in nudist campus. This was her first gimmick. Her gimmicks continued to include Chesty Morgan, the woman with the 73" bus line; films which acted out the worst of the Bible's sins: incest, rape, murder; and the twentieth-century's modern medical break...