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Thus, upon my descent from the land of Student Advantage to the land of student disadvantage, I expected to be confronted by a barrage of real people. And I was, but with an unexpected twist. To my surprise, I found that the vast majority of real people I met who had graduated from college recently--that is, within the past two, three or even four or five years--are living in a state of denial. They are technically real people, but you'd never know...
Graduation holds an abundance of possibilities. Three new publications (TEEN PEOPLE, Jump and Twist) are challenging the established triumvirate (Seventeen, YM and Teen). Already, TEEN PEOPLE has 500,000 subscribers; each of Twist's five issues has sold 20% more copies than the previous one; and Jump boasts a circulation of 350,000. "We use girls with all body types and races to make the point of not shooting unrealistic images of beauty and thinness," says Christina Ferrari, managing editor of TEEN PEOPLE (a Time Inc. publication). The June/July issue features the 21 hottest people under 21 as well...
...error (no pun intended) did allow Hope the chance to hear Congressman Bob Stump (R-Ariz.) solemnly announce on the floor of Congress that "I have the sad responsibility to tell you this afternoon that Bob Hope passed away. We will all miss him very much." Adding a bipartisan twist to the tribute, Congressman David Bonior (D-Mich.) echoed Stump's sentiments. "We are all saddened by his passing," said Bonior "We thank him for the memories...
...open shot in the open court, no one was better at creating and getting his own shot in difficult, highly contested games than Jordan. No one had a better jump shot under combat conditions. Late in his career, his pure physical skills just slightly diminished, he added a new twist to his jump shot, one in which as he hit the apex of his jump, he fell back slightly. That, because of his jumping ability and the threat he posed to drive, gave him just the right degree of separation to get his shot and made for a virtually unstoppable...
...twist of fate, Pochoda's four-game, come-from-behind finals victory came over Penn's Jessica DiMauro, the same woman who narrowly beat her out for the 1996 singles title...