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Unfortunately, all preparations proved in vain as the Badgers took the crown securely with a time of 6:35.00 while the Tigers grabbed second in 6:39.70. The Black and White again found itself in third place, finishing...
Facing a potential judgment in excess of $100 million, Harvard’s star economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 has tried in vain to limit his liability in the U.S. government’s ongoing fraud suit against...
...election—held during reading period, at an inconvenient time of day—I lost to Capp by a vote of 22-20. I am not so vain to think that all those 20 votes were cast because of some characteristic I possess; surely some were protests against the duplicitous actions of the current administration. But I am just as certain that numerous votes were cast for Capp simply so that there would be someone—anyone—serving as vice president over the summer...
...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
...corpulent little beasts, Louis being known for his portliness and Dan weighing in at a whopping 69 pounds), their behaviors could not be more alike. Louis XVI is known as a foppish king, decked out in his powdered wig and walking stick; Handsome Dan is no less a vain show dog, chosen expressly for his ability to strut in front of a band and tear up a Crimson blanket. Both are the meaningless figureheads of their respective institutions, all bark and no bite; both inhabit silly expensive palaces—Versailles and Yale—pretty on the outside...