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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyone is guaranteed a single, a common room, and possibly a kitchen, if you're lucky. And the floor-length windows in Jordan? Just make sure you draw the shades lest the College's residential life Dean Suzy M. Nelson calls the cops on you for the "very indiscreet goings-on" in the privacy of your 125 sqaure-foot bedroom overlooking her backyard...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: The Housing Crisis: Pforzheimer House | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...Edward VIII after he decided to marry the American divorcé Wallis Simpson. However, the last known blackmail case involving a member of the royal family was successfully hushed up for many years. In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son to King Edward VII, paid £ 200 to secure indiscreet letters he had sent to a prostitute. The case came to light only five years ago when a letter to his lawyer was sold at auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Royal Blackmail Mystery | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...fact that the actor playing her visitor had one of the most imitated voices of this century. Never in the history of movies has a leading lady more quickly overcome her languors in order to get ready for romance. The year was 1958. The film was a comedy called Indiscreet. And by this comparatively late date, neither Ingrid Bergman nor anyone else encountering Cary Grant, onscreen or off, had any alternative to bedazzlement as a response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Acrobat of the Drawing Room: Cary Grant 1904-1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." In any event, Grant apparently felt that the process of self-invention on which he worked with so little visible strain but with such devotion reached apotheosis in Indiscreet, for he would later name it his favorite among the 72 feature films he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Acrobat of the Drawing Room: Cary Grant 1904-1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...infamous yellowish-brown smudge on Roger’s left hand, all the sports columnists and baseball experts began preparing their own take on one of baseball’s most common and poorly kept secrets.Yet somehow, the only thing that shocked me about the whole incident was how indiscreet Rogers was about his use of pine tar. I would have expected a little more guile out of the grizzled 18-year veteran. Yet the blatant use of pine tar serves to show just how widespread the use of illegal substances is among pitchers. After playing my first full-season...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BALLPARK FRANK: Smudge Scandal Indicative of Trend in Professional Ball | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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