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Wang is hyperintelligent, hilariously funny, sensitive?and self-deprecating. Having started out as a fashion editor at Vogue among some pretty big personalities, she has every reason to have adopted some strain of diva behavior. "I am not a diva," she says. And she's not. Born to traditional-minded Asian parents and raised with what she jokingly calls "good Midwestern values," Wang says, she's "a worker." Her work ethic?few could argue?has paid...
...home opener at Harvard Stadium.Announced in May, the game was initially scheduled for tonight, but the Department of Athletics moved it to tomorrow night in response to a slew of complaints last month. Most centered on the conflict with the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur and the additional strain a night game would place on the Allston community, where the stadium is located.Whatever the date, the game’s historic appeal remains, marking the first regular-season use of the stadium’s almost year-old lights for regular season football competition.But for the Crimson, it?...
...President's attempt to disguise the strain on the military as a "victory" for his troop surge is disingenuous politicking at its worst. But it's symptomatic of a debate in Washington that puts high-flown rhetoric and do-good intentions like "supporting the troops" ahead of a serious discussion of what America still can and should do in Iraq...
Democrats like Congressman John Murtha and Senator Carl Levin regularly criticize Bush for running the troops ragged and cite this as an argument for withdrawal from Iraq. But the President is getting conflicting information about the strain of the extended rotations. Two days before he left on his trip to Iraq, Bush got another one of his Washington briefings, this time from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told him "that families, while strained, were able to be supported," says National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe...
...while Hollywood is being honest about the new strain of guy-meets-guy comedy - bromance, the word writer Dave Carnie coined to describe the strong emotional attachment of one man for another - maybe Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler should come out of the closet too. In Ferrell's movies, male merging beats female interest to a pulp, and his latest, Blades of Glory, allows him several opportunities to stick his face in Jon Heder's crotch. Sandler's summer hit, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, took guy-guy friendship to its logical conclusion: two firefighters get married. At least...