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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bout Maxim magazine listing you as one of TV's 10 least appealing ladies? Maxim talks a good game, but if Maxim and I were alone, and Maxim was drunk, they'd sleep with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 16, 2006 | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...history, the answer has been a resounding yes. The early seventeenth century College required tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: The Trouble With the Germans | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...Most Surprising Thing I Don't Miss - Beer. Perhaps being half-stunned by lack of sleep makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Letter From Iraq | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...alarm and groggily climb out of bed. As I shower, I am still half asleep, but slowly begin to acclimate to the morning as I throw on my clothes. For the 100th time, I wonder why I am doing this to myself: six hours of sleep and 15 hours of work a day seem obscenely off-balanced. And what about the eight cups of coffee a day that just barely manage to keep me awake? This can’t be healthy, can it? But, as always, my adrenaline rushes as I think of 9 a.m.—that...

Author: By Shannon E. Flynn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Goldman Sachs Girl | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...audience at the original London show, the British construction magnate Robert McAlpine was so enchanted by the stage set that he decided he wanted a bit of Sleeping Beauty's magic for his own domain. So he commissioned Messel to design a suite, a penthouse, a pavilion and a roof terrace with fountain for his luxury London hotel the Dorchester. The result, which opened in 1953 and has been restored but never altered, is truly fit for a princess. The entire scheme is an essay in riotous cod rococo: swagged chintz, contorted gilt (even the bathroom fittings are gold-plated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet Suite | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

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