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Grab your charge card! We recently caught up with bestselling British author Sophie Kinsella - more than eight million of her books are in print - on the first day of her nationwide U.S. book tour. Befitting her role as the writer of the Shopaholic series, Kinsella showed up decked out with snazzy new duds: a sparkly tweed dress; a belt from Reiss studded with faux jewels and rhinestones; black suede L. K. Bennett shoes; and a zebra Jimmy Choo bag. Kinsella, 37, who lives in London with her Latin teacher husband, is one of the leading lights in the chick...
...whichever British university went home triumphant from the 153rd Boat Race on the river Thames a couple of weeks ago, with graduates rowing for both sides, Harvard was going to come out a victor...
However, round the Surrey bend, the experience and talent in the Cambridge boat soon began to show, with its five returning Blues, two German world champions, and two British Olympians. They got into their rhythm and, having closed the gap, pushed out ahead once in the straight again...
Unfortunately for you prefrosh who will decide to come to Harvard, all great empires (Roman, British, Ottoman, Yankees) must enter decline. Next year will be recorded as marking the beginning of Harvard’s linoleum era. What can we say? Things were just better when we were prefrosh. Coming to Harvard after us is like inheriting the Roman Empire after the Antonine dynasty. If you don’t understand the allusion, it’s ok. When we were freshmen, we got it. Likewise, our folders were crimson, not red, Cambridge never had weather below 70 degrees, Nobel...
...issue then was whether or not to fight or pay tribute to the aggressive “Barbary pirates,” who were plundering American vessels that could no longer rely on British naval protection. Americans of the time debated the wisdom of aggression as a response to such proto-terrorist tactics, an unresolved disagreement that continues to the present...