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...enchanted evening, your prince charming was supposed to drop to his knees at your feet, open a velvet box, and slip a diamond on your left hand as you choke back happy tears and mentally calculate how quickly you could find a phone. These days, thanks to a very millennial mix of political correctness, collective guilt and obsessive individuality, it's not quite so simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why De Beers Wants You 'Blood Diamond'-Savvy | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...Heroin - Velvet Underground 2. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd 3. White Room - Cream 4. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 5. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who 6. Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experience 7. Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones 8. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan 9. Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin 10. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All-Time Top Ten: The Readers Give Us an Earful | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...bring formalwear. Harvard just loves to get dressed up. Charity balls, house formals and play openings (yes, play openings) provide ample excuses for shedding jeans and sweatshirts for black ties and velvet dresses...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Take It Or Leave It: What To Bring To Campus | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...bought by a Racine, Wis., resident for $5, will fetch $200,000 to $300,000, Christie's estimates, at auction on May 25. Two Magnolias on Blue Plush, which cost a Wausau, Wis., man $29, sold at Christie's last May for $882,500. And Magnolia Blossoms on Blue Velvet and Cherokee Roses were purchased together in Tucson, Ariz., for $88. They sold at Christie's in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Key to Garage-Sale Art: Say It with Flowers | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Michael B. Murphy '03 and Jean E. Huang '03, who refer to each other as "pre-frosh buddies," met when Murphy's friend spilled lemonade on Huang's velvet pants...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pre-frosh Weekend: Students Remember First Sight of Yard | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

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