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...mainstay in the industry, the "gift with purchase." In 1953, she introduced the scented bath oil Youth Dew, luring new customers who previously considered fragrance an indulgence of the rich. As the company launched such brands as Clinique and Prescriptives, Lauder maintained strict control over the techniques of her vast sales force. When she died last week at 97, at her home in New York City, the company, now run by her son Leonard, was worth $10 billion...
Director Jonathan Demme has a vast portfolio (The Silence of the Lambs, Beloved and a forthcoming Gulf War-based remake of The Manchurian Candidate) behind him and, it would seem from just glancing that immense composite list, little time to dwell on the historical particulars and hardships of tracking down footage for a documentary. Yet, in his portrait of Jean Dominique, a Haitian activist unknown to most American ears, Demme takes aim at a slightly obscure topic and turns up a final product that not only serves as a fascinating narrative biography but an excellent debriefing of Haiti?...
...frosh were misled into the false belief that we have a thriving campus social scene. Au contraire. The painful reality is that last weekend was an anomaly—a sore thumb of fun. Between the twin weekend pillars of The Game and Prefrosh Weekend, there is a vast emptiness of lackluster Fridays, silent Saturdays, and siesta Sundays. the College often seems like the Un-College; campus-wide events, parties and concerts are few and far between...
...common perception that all conservatives think alike is closely tied to the idea of the “vast right-wing conspiracy”—that conservatives are somehow a sinister force. It implies that there is something deeply troubling, even wrong, about their beliefs. I remember the disgusted looks I received in my Justice section: people simply couldn’t believe that a Harvard student actually disagreed that taxes were an intrinsic moral good...
Donation agencies assure donors that the procedure, thus far, has been relatively painless and successful. Over ten thousand babies from donor eggs have been born in the last decade and the vast majority of donors suffer no bodily harm. But Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies lecturer Mary Ruggie warns, “there will be more legal and ethical issues that will come up that we can’t fathom...