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Three hundred maroon tee shirts will be decorated with a small football silk-screened on the front, with text announcing the game. On the back: "Yale's new URL: www.safetyschool.org...

Author: By Justin D. Gest and Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Council Plans Fun for The Game | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...until Bartoli began singing Vivaldi that she hit her stride. Clothed in an opulent gown of Venetian-red silk, Bartoli became animated as she launched into her first Vivaldi work. She began with "Il Povero Mio Core," singing a heavy, soulful aria, followed by a quick, assertive Recitativo and then a frighteningly fast aria. It was in the last aria that Bartoli truly claimed the stage as her own-her anger was perceptible in the furthest balcony, and the her energy was palpable. Bartoli personified the words "Disperato, Confuso, Agiato" with all of the painful anguish of a scorned lover...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Damsel in 'Dis Dress | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...Swaziland, showed off their traditional clothing. Some teams compromised by sending out a couple of athletes in folk costume and the rest in what might easily pass for air crew uniforms. The handsome man in a short embroidered purple velvet coat and fairy-tale beautiful girl in cream silk and lace who led the Georgians only emphasized the dowdiness of the others on the team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Style Olympics | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...this column will remember when I was required by pesky editors to order dinner for 50 entirely off the Internet, including a person to help serve. When that person, like so much else, didn't show up, the Senator got his own drink, and Hadassah rolled up her silk sleeves to lug the ham and side dishes to the table, never mentioning that there was nothing she and Joe could eat. She keeps him from holding forth in the Great Man way, having told him one time long ago that "there was one less Great Man in the world than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Joe That I Know | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Nguyen Trai Street, Kieu Viet Lien has brought her new moped indoors. The 25-year-old designer is kneeling on the floor of her shop surrounded by paper patterns and pieces of green silk, preparing for a fashion competition. From his office in an advertising agency across town, Pham Phu Xuan, 31, can see the storm approaching too. He is on the phone setting up a TV shoot for a shampoo commercial. Hong Nhung, 30, one of Vietnam's most popular singers, is working out in her gym in the Saigon Center. Drops of rain are starting to splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Time In Saigon | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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