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...school to visit her new beau. And again, as fate would have it, Sawlit, after transferring from Pforzheimer to Dunster, was placed in the same entryway as Hastrup and just a few floors below her future fiancé’s suite. Hastrup, of course, was a bold suitor. “Every time he would walk up he would bang on the door,” says Sawlit, and the two would often stay up writing papers and talking until the wee hours. After their relationship became more serious, their roommates predicted that wedding bells were a foregone...
...didn't have to seek approval form the cultural institutions that exist. As that has changed, comics have had to reinvent themselves or die." Reinvent they did, and in the process reinvented the publishing business. As artist Raymond Pettibon puts in in the exhibition catalog: "Comics, the jilted suitor of the high airs art world, come back as the savior of the book industry in the form of the graphic novel...
...Wilde’s script—as the staging of many events essential to the plot seem unnatural. The play opens with the devoted young wife Lady Windermere (Rebecca M. Harrington ’08, who is also a Crimson editor) explaining her morals to a well-spoken suitor, played by Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08. Within minutes, however, her self-described Puritanism is challenged when her friend, the bombastic Duchess of Berwick, played by Jen C. Sullivan ’09, tells her about what all of the upper crust has been discussing for months...
...Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, for his telecom business (which includes a mobile-phone operation and a promising Internet-TV venture) immediately drew a rival bid from private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital Group. Not only does Macquarie have a rival suitor, but the Chinese government may also fatally complicate the deal. That's because China Network Communications Group, one of China's state-owned telephone companies, has a 20% stake in PCCW and its officials are wary of the sale of an important Hong Kong asset to non-Chinese investors...
...Kendrick, Harvard’s package, printed mostly in staid black-and-white, paled in comparison to the colorful, “stylish-looking” collection she soon received from her suitor on the West Coast...