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...Junior Sylvia Yang dropped to the Varsity 4 ‘A’ boat following Radcliffe’s most recent match up against the Tigers, thrusting senior Katie Greenzang into her place...
Magadanskaya, the vodka served by Stalin to Truman and Churchill at Potsdam, is smooth and bracing. A sip makes Robert Plotkin of BarMedia, a well-known consultant, say, "Oh, my goodness." But it tastes like ... vodka. Its importer, Sylvia Scherer, of West Import & Export in Kenai, Alaska, is marooned near the back of the hall, far from big corporate booths pushing Stoli Cranberi vodka and Tarantula Azul tequila. Scherer struggles to nail down distribution beyond Alaska, California and Georgia. "One of these days everybody's going to discover us," she says. For now, she swims against a purple, berry-flavored...
...beloved American poet Sylvia Plath COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963 after her husband Ted Hughes left her for another woman. What better way to commemorate this tragedy than by cashing in with a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow? But Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes is outraged by the film, Ted and Sylvia. She has refused to allow the movie to quote from Plath's poetry, and she has written a poem of her own about it: "The peanut eaters, entertained/At my mother's death, will go home,/Each carrying their memory of her,/Lifeless--a souvenir./Maybe they'll buy the video...
...other Andrea Sachs, I must admit that it's hard to work up much sympathy for her. After all, having a vantage point at the top of fashion publishing by age 23 ain't so bad. How else can you get a book contract at 24? Sylvia Plath wrote the great Conde Nast novel, The Bell Jar, in 1963, and her crown is secure. Lighten up, and enjoy the show on the runway. And please don't confuse me with any loose-lipped assistants...
...book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett doubts it, and new research says a woman's chances of conceiving start to slip...