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...always wanted to tell someone: I’m naturally blonde. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I’m naturally blonde. Favorite childhood toy: Candyland. Sexiest physical trait: My sex-phone-operator-esque voice. Favorite part about Harvard: Alexa, Lizzie, Alexandra, Tina, Sylvia, Steph, Livia, Whitney, Allie, Lucy—my roommates. Least favorite part about Harvard: Bars close at 2 a.m. Describe yourself in three words: Chi-chis afuera. In 15 minutes you are: Watching “The Real Housewives of the O.C.” In 15 years...
While Bostonians once poured tea over the side of a ship in defiance of British rule, four Harvard seniors will soon serve tea in England as ambassadors of Anglophonic solidarity. Four undergraduates—Joey M. Hanzich ’06, Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06, Om L. Lala ’06, and Jonathan A. Blazek ’06—were awarded Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships last Saturday, which will send them in October across the Atlantic to study at Cambridge University.Hanzich, Houghteling, and Lala plan to pursue Masters of Philosophy (M. Phil) degrees and Blazek...
...Albee's Lifetime Achievement award at this year's Tonys certified the restoration of his career. The international success of his 2001 play The Goat, or: Who Is Sylvia, and strong Broadway revivals of his Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles...
...Gates Foundation go to great lengths to emphasize that Melinda and Bill are equals. "She is not a junior partner in any way, shape or form. Bill likes that," says Warren Buffett, a close friend (and the second richest man in the world, for those who are counting). Says Sylvia Mathews, the foundation's chief operating officer: "We joke and say Bill and Melinda have 21/2 degrees: she has two; he has a half." (Melinda, 41, has a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and a master's in business from Duke University. Bill, 50, dropped...
...print that Barbra Streisand’s nose “towers like a ziggurat made of meat” without getting sued. Careers turned on his acerbic tongue, and enmity followed it. The New York Drama Critics Circle voted to refuse him membership in 1969. Actress Sylvia Miles once overturned a plate of spaghetti onto his head at a restaurant. Theater critics and actresses who often sparred could come together in agreement one point: they all detested John Simon.Yet here he sits, 80 years old and perfectly arranged from tie to penny loafers, facing the charge of snobbery that?...