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...editor will fire me if I don't ask you whether you've done that. Have you had any plastic surgery? I took a good look at the age of 54, and as much as I thought I could use a face-lift, I said my feet need it so much more than my face. Because there's stuff you can do with your face. But when you have bunions the size of Rhode Island and Delaware, you need to get surgery on them...
...rounded out the Harvard field with a two-day total of 164 (78-86) to finish 22 over par. “It was tough conditions,” Shuman said. “We managed to play pretty well on Saturday, and [on Sunday] I felt like we took a step backwards, which is frustrating. But it’s good to see where we stack up.” After this weekend and with the league championship coming up in two weeks, the Crimson hopes to improve its position in the Ivy League—behind Yale, Penn...
...acts—Demure Danger, Asian Americana, and Street Culture—exhibited mixes of Eastern and Western styles. Designers from Harvard College, the Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology showcased their work in two “Student Design” segments. Demure Danger took its inspiration from two trends of the 1920s, the colorful Chinese qipao dress and the freewheeling flapper styles of Prohibition-era New York. One model tossed his bowler hat into the audience as he left the catwalk. The remainder of the show was sprinkled with similar performance elements and flirtatious...
...pirates, who had acted with virtual impunity for several years and are still holding as hostages some 200 crewmen of various nationalities, were infuriated by the U.S. Navy operation. They threatened new attacks against America. "After the action they took yesterday, we will respond with action," Hassan Yare, 38, a pirate in the Somali city of Garad, tells TIME. "We're warning the owners of the other ships that if they try to attack, we will kill the crews and burn their ships." (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
...given them before their latest trip. They said they were kept on the ship well after it arrived at port in Mombasa after escaping the pirates, not only because the ship was classified as a crime scene, but also so that the crew could document the precise steps they took to rebuff the attack, which they refused to disclose to reporters. (See the top 10 audacious acts of piracy...