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...this is a time to celebrate a positive change and applaud the College for taking action. These renovations are not as skin-deep as a fresh coat of paint; the improvements to the MAC are real and considerable. They do the (student) body good—resting heart rates included...
...serious competitors to something like endangered species, figures who could be romanticized or despised, sometimes both at once. Years later, Heye described his conversion experience as a collector: "One night I noticed the wife of one of my Indian foremen biting on what seemed to be a piece of skin. Upon inquiry I found she was chewing the seams of her husband's deerskin shirt in order to kill the lice." He bought the shirt...
...need topping up") it quickly becomes clear that her void is spiritual, not spirit-based. God, faith and salvation are ideas that regularly hover around Kennedy's fictions. But in Paradise, He's suddenly everywhere: in the form of a swan; shining erotically in her lover's skin; serving coffee in Hannah's nightmares. And even though Kennedy was raised a Methodist and is now a Quaker, there's no evangelism here. God is in Paradise to do literature's work: to throw light on why we do what we do. "I was interested in the idea of self-martyrdom...
Luxury quotient: A near religious devotion to exotic ingredients has helped propel the brand. The success of its $290 lifting cream more than doubled the company's skin-care sales--making it one of the few makeup lines to thrive in that competitive market...
Luxury quotient: The biannual book now carries more than 150 brands and reaches 2 million people, who can buy into Vivre's dreamy world for $25 (for a leather baseball). And then there are the $13,530 alligator-skin ponchos...