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...rarely expressed--prone to pedophilia. Rebekah Zincavage, a director at the Boston Nanny Center, which employs 300 nannies, 15 of them men, says a female nanny will get two offers after eight interviews, while a man will go on 30 interviews for the same result. "The men are stellar, with more experience than many women, but they have to be twice as good. People are skeptical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Super Mannies | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

What the critics say: “West had better keep that day job. There are unintentionally hilarious moments even beyond the less-than-stellar backing music and West’s corny delivery, such as his indictment of slaves’ having been forced to work on ‘ugly plantations’...It’s when the music is at its most awkward that the album hits its low points. Nails-on-chalkboard synthesizers drive the horrible backing tracks of ‘Stolen King’ (an anti-slavery screed that sounds like...

Author: By R.e. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Your Rapt Attention, Please | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...counterarguments present themselves. Proponents of the Senior Gift would counter that I can earmark my donations to causes such as undergraduate financial aid, which is a laudable program. Still, the record of the financial aid office at Harvard has been less than stellar. Although aid has increased in recent years, these changes have been the result of competitive pressure, not a desire to meaningfully benefit the lives of students. Harvard, I feel confident in claiming, would never have made such changes had Princeton not taken the lead. If I am going to give money to support undergraduate financial...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, RISKY BUSINESS | Title: Debunking the Senior Gift | 2/27/2002 | See Source »

Ward finished off the Crimson’s attack by downing Brown freestyler and Jamaican Olympian Dawn Chuck in the final 100 with a stellar 49.98 split. Ward capped off Harvard’s second relay record of the night, touching the wall in a cumulative time...

Author: By Michael C. Sabala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Sets Records in Ivy Meetip | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...justice done? It wasn't, not really. Believe it or not, four judges placed Slutskaya's extremely mediocre performance Number One for the night. Five gave that honor to Hughes's stellar one, thank goodness. Slutskaya did, thus, beat Kwan, which allowed Hughes to get her due. It was a very, very, very, very near thing. It was quite close to crummy. We very nearly had Salt Lake's Skategate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Sarah Hughes | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

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