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...eccentric as it first appears—Radcliffe has always had a greener thumb. Visitors from Oxford and Cambridge have often noted the lack of flower-beds in the yard, and so have those from Princeton and Yale. But why the austerity? Like any lusty mistress of knowledge, I consult the oracular geniuses. In this case, Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who after a learned cadenza through Harvard History said unto me, “Let’s put it this way: It’s a seventeenth-century guy thing...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Pass The Shears, Please | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...summer in New York City’s Union Square, but the outdoor space was not ideal. The enclosed area of the Brattle provides a predictable environment, but it also brings up new ostacles.According to Dickerson, a major concern was the mixing of different smells.“Our mistress of ceremonies described it as, ‘You know when you eat an apple pie and then some chicken and then a pizza and all those things mix in your stomach and then you throw them up? Well, potentially, that’s how Smell-O-Vision could...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Smell-o-Vision A Reality | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...family values are questionable, not just because of his three marriages, and not just because second wife Donna Hanover only learned she was being dumped from a televised press conference Rudy was giving. While Hanover and their kids were still living at Gracie Mansion, he asked Judith Nathan, his mistress at the time, to move in with them. A judge finally had to intervene and bar Nathan from the place. Despite the indecent manner in which Giuliani treated his family, the professional moralists in the Republican Party - like Robertson - will vote for him. Arlene Philomena, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

HANKS She's got everybody on a little string. She's a puppet mistress is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking History | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Most Americans are just starting to tune in to the 2008 presidential campaign - and with headlines focused on security expenses for Rudy Giuliani's liaisons with his then mistress (now wife) and on Hillary Clinton's attacks on Barack Obama's kindergarten assignments, they may very well tune back out until after the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How American Voters Decide | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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