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...think it's really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way." Thus did America's big sister, Miley Cyrus, describe a Vanity Fair photo by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz of herself, tousled and clutching a blanket to her torso. Many parents of fans of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana, on the other hand, saw not an homage to classical portraiture but a topless 15-year-old. Um, no, they demurred. That was totally in a skanky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana or Molehill? | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...upon his impending graduation as a source of motivation. “I always wanted to do it, and this was my last chance,” he says. Marianne Eagan ’10, on the other hand, found motivation outside herself. Eagan says that she and her sister made a deal to run the race together. “My sister and I just shook on it over Thanksgiving,” Eagan says. Although Eagan missed the HCMC application deadline in the fall, she managed to secure a spot with HCMC as the race drew nearer...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: True Overachievers | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...characters’ familial bonds, which only fully manifest themselves following Maria’s death. The fallout from her death changes the lives of her children in huge and unexpected ways, wrenching them out of their jobs and relationships.Maria’s death brings Gabriel and his sister Isabella to St. Petersburg, the seedy seat of their family’s history, plunging readers into the psyche of their sharp, cruel, solipsistic, and utterly absorbing father, and slowly pulling an abandoned son—the embittered, talented, consummately Russian Arkady—into the familial constellation. Docx...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Pravda’ Brings St. Petersburg, Menacing and Marvelous, To Life | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...husband rises early each morning and goes downstairs to read the newspaper. I scrunch deeper under the comforter, squeezing out more dreams. Until a few months ago, my three-pound boy dog would dance on my face to waken me. Now his two-pound sister, who is also bereft, lies quietly on my chest. If I don't stir, she licks my nostrils as gentle reveille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Comforts of Home | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...class of 2012: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Vassar and Williams. But she's a dancer--ballet six times a week, modern twice, jazz once--and Columbia University in New York City would give her access not only to an exceptional ballet program at its sister school Barnard but also to the epicenter of the dance world. Unfortunately, Columbia has put her on the waitlist. Though she's not whining about her wealth of options, Simon, a senior at Noble and Greenough School, is holding out hope for Columbia, at least through mid-June. "I ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Off the College Waitlist | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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