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Because of the power disparity between the students and the university, UMass can return the RA employees to student status. Such a move to skirt the possibility of a union would be incredibly manipulative and highlights the very imbalance of power between the administration and the RAs that make unionizing necessary...

Author: By Emma S. Mackinnon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergraduates, Unite! | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

...Hara/French Revolution dress. The train was so long they bustled it up under the dress and the way it had to be tied was so complicated that all the ties were numbered and lettered.” Tanner bought her dress from a bridal shop. “The skirt had 10 layers and I had to have someone help me put it on,” she recalls. “It was really heavy.” For her coronation as Fiesta Queen, Jauer donned the dress that two past queens had worn, an elaborate concoction of iridescent...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Ball | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

ELLE'S ULTIMATE WEDDINGS Style: Chic and sleek, hardly any veils Wildest look: A Vera Wang minidress, the sleeves longer than the skirt Suggested wedding gift: A $10,000 badger blanket Genre-busting advance: The bride models don't smile Unique advice: Bridesmaids' dresses don't have to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Do Take This Magazine | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...Swift did in her short tenure I applaud. But being a worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused such a flap if it had not played into an image already gelling that Swift thought she deserved special treatment. She'd been defiant when accused of using State House employees to babysit, and didn't apologize until reprimanded by an ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane Swift: No More Governor Mom | 3/23/2002 | See Source »

...Take the March issue, about black andwhite outfits—the ones that work and the ones that don’t, for instance. A little honey wearing a white mini-skirt with a huge black belt gets a thumbs up. Apparently, she’s doing a much better job at pairing the two most basic colors on earth than the woman wearing a tutu looking, 80’s-esque ball gown with crazy zigzag patterns or the woman caught wearing (gasp!) polka dots...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dos and Don'ts | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

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