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While some of the dialogue and song lyrics are a bit difficult to follow, the he plot line is simple. In a small English village, the betrothal of two of its wealthiest inhabitants, Alexis (Adam Wolfsdorf '97) and Aline (Jenny Little '99) is being celebrated by the whole town--with the exception of the lonely Constance (Jennifer Tattenbaum '99), who is pining away for the love of the ditzy but endearing Vicar, Dr. Daly (John Driscoll '99). Everybody seems enamored either with another person or with love itself. Even Alexis' pompous father, Sir Marmaduke (Jordan Cooper '99), admits that...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Falling Under the Spell of 'The Sorcerer' | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...Overlap arrangement, says Keith Leffler, a University of Washington antitrust economist who testified for the government, allowed member schools to raise their gross tuition (now often called the "sticker price") to very high levels without scaring off talented low-income students. The wealthiest students would come no matter what, and might even be attracted by the high prices. Says Leffler: "There's no doubt [Overlap] artificially inflated tuition prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY COLLEGES COST TOO MUCH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...quite populist. Southern Mississippi is home to a small but aggressive plaintiff's bar, featured twice over the past year on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and on episodes of 60 Minutes. For all of Lott's passion for tort reform, one of the nation's wealthiest tormentors of tobacco companies is his brother-in-law Dick Scruggs, beside whose pool the majority leader can often be found, sipping a Coke and working his cell phone, whenever the Senate is out and the weather is warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Invited to this event were some of Harvard's wealthiest and best known givers: Steven A. Ballmer '77, Edward M. Lamont Jr. '77 and Sr. '46, Katherine B. Loker and Carl H. Pforzheimer...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Humidity Decaying Widener's Volumes | 3/7/1997 | See Source »

Along the way she charmed Presidents and policymakers, diplomats and decorators, even as she terrified wives by having affairs with their husbands, some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men. Bill Clinton called her the doyenne of the Democrats for raising millions of dollars and shepherding the party through its 1980s political exile. That was a far cry from the rambunctious private life she led in the 1940s and '50s, which prompted her second husband, Leland Hayward, to dub her, with great pride, "the courtesan of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HER BRILLIANT CAREER: PAMELA HARRIMAN (1920-1997) | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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