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...other end of the spectrum, Jacquelyn Chou ’07 paid $300 for a three-hour photo shoot involving multiple costume changes. The expense was well worth it, Chou says, since “the pictures came in handy for my California Junior Miss application.’’ Chou placed third in the contest. All told, she is certain that she spent “significantly less” on her senior pictures than most of her classmates back home in southern California. David A. Martin ’07, whose perfectly touched-up senior pictures...
Dewey Finn, hard-rockin' guitarist, has the music in him. It's just that no one wants it to get out. His bandmates aren't crazy about his three-hour solos, nor is the audience. When Dewey throws himself into a mosh pit of revelers, no one catches him. Fired by the band, he holes up with a friend who is too meek to say no but who does suggest that Dewey help with the rent by selling one of his guitars. The artiste is aghast: "Would you ask Picasso to sell one of his guitars...
...RETURNED HOME. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, Burmese opposition leader; from a hospital stay and four months detention in an undisclosed location by Burma's military government; in Rangoon. Following a three-hour operation for a gynecological condition, the democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner returned to her lakeside home, where she reportedly will be kept under house arrest. After arriving there, she released her first public statement since her entourage was attacked by a pro-government mob in May: "I thank you for your warm concern and am confident that you have equal concern for my supporters...
...Some argue that Europeans are not going as far as they used to. Roberto Perrone, of Rome's Turicam agency, says: "Maybe a two- or three-hour flight, but no more." This could be due to money and safety jitters, but they are not the only reasons the Great European Vacation is changing. The traditional months off are July and August, but more people now seem to be breaking their time down into smaller chunks instead of taking one three- to four-week lump. Travel agents even have an ugly neologism for the shift. "It's called deseasonalization," says Maura...
...doesn't eat meat. He's all about boundaries. Last year Autograph Collectors magazine ranked him No. 4 on its list of the world's worst autograph signers. Maguire has exactly one vice, illegal Cuban Cohiba Robusto cigars. On this morning, he smokes two before noon. In a three-hour interview, he makes exactly one joke. Asked if he is worried about the cigars messing up his million-dollar voice, he pretends to be offended. "A million?" he says, as if that's not enough. (Fact is, he's reportedly getting $12 million for Seabiscuit and $17 million for Spider...