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...down to the business of your new book. What are Spanx? You know what? Spanx are a sham. Spanx are an evil hoax perpetrated upon womanhood. It happened to me when I was in a store. I don't have time to shop so I grabbed a pair of tights and figured I would try them on at home. I put them on and I can't get them on. I try to put these on and it's like a tourniquet ... So I thought, what is this garment? I started to do the research. It is in fact body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Best-Selling Author Lisa Scottoline | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

What we find interesting about Dantoon is the optional "type" quiz that you can take upon registering. Here's one of the twelve questions: "If you ruled the world, your parties would be a) big, friendly, and fun, or b) social obligations and nothing more...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dantoon (No, Not a Parody of 'Lampoon') | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

...list of criteria. The name had to have no preexisting meaning, it had to be easy to spell, it had to have the potential to be a verb, it could be no longer than two syllables, and so on. After spending many months putting random syllables together, Shahabi came upon "Dantoon...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dantoon (No, Not a Parody of 'Lampoon') | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

...week, Kirkland residents find themselves secretly doting and being doted upon, waking up to hot breakfast in bed, returning to their rooms to find their suite transformed into a winter wonderland, or bumping into a house “crush” waiting for them with a bottle of champagne and freshly baked cookies. And that’s just the private stuff. More after the jump...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kirkland Secret Santa Week Rages Forth | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

...party took place in a Yale a cappella house. Upon arriving, guests were given plastic bags to put their clothes in and then welcomed inside wearing only a newfound sense of liberation and their birthday suits. According to students who attended the party, it was a surprisingly non-sexual party atmosphere, with “more civilized conversation and good eye contact than at most regular parties,” according to a sophomore in Currier House. The main difference was that there was no dancing, which probably would have changed the gathering’s classification from a party...

Author: By Ryan D. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Naked Yale Party. It happened. | 11/28/2009 | See Source »

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