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...prevailing college creole,” he writes, is something called “Fuck Patois,” a language centered around—you guessed it—that most descriptive of four-letter words. Wolfe does get it right here, at least initially; college students swear an awful lot, and create new and intricate forms of words that used to only have a few. But he gets too giddy when he includes the telltale word seventeen times in a half-page of dialogue. And his imitation rap by the fictionally famous “Doctor Dis?...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Book Review: I Am Charlotte Simmons | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...stopped at the wrong metro station with a vintage Brioni blazer, but no umbrella and no idea which of the large white tents housed Phoebe Philo and her newest creations for the House of Chloe. Trudging through the puddles of the Jardin de Tuileries, I grasped my invite (I swear I’m Alisa Annis of Footwear News...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, | Title: Chiffon and Cowboy Boots | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

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Author: By Pragati Tandon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How To Make Judy Jetson Jealous | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...PRESIDENT OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE The first woman to head South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder says she expects Oglala tribal leaders to swear off all drugs and alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicks Rule | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...young age and suffered from macular degeneration and Parkinson's disease, and my mother died of lung cancer--there's plenty I don't know. What were my parents' cholesterol numbers and blood pressures? I assume I would have known if either suffered from diabetes, but I can't swear to that. And when it comes to my grandparents, whose genes I also have, I'm even more in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The New Family Tree | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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