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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...black tie season kicks off this weekend with the PfoHo Pformal. Depending on whether or not you have a clip on, it should take less than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...What’s your position?” Everyone had been introducing themselves as president of this or that Republican group. “69,” he offered. Bob thereby managed to thoroughly insult the sense of decorum of the entire elevator in less than two minutes...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Body Politics | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...these is all the libido we could ever need. Romance and relationships are noisy and complicated, inevitably fraught with unpleasant difficulties. But a simple, crisp, pinpoint pass from one end of the ice to the other—executed with just a single, silent look—is nothing less than two souls moving in perfect harmony...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Putting Romance on Ice | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...favoritism for siblings, FM spoke to Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, director of admissions and Don Vito Corleone, as the case may be. She explained that the business of sibling admissions is less clear cut than the system for legacies. “Since the admissions became competitive in the mid- 20th century, there has been a tip for Harvard-Radcliffe sons or daughters.” Lewis uses “tip” (as in “of the scale”) to describe the slight bias toward legacies; ceteris paribus...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Harvard Mafia: Siblings Kill to Join the Family in Cambrdige | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...More than a century ago, these reservoirs of blue blood began as a mansion away from one’s mansion, the alternative to the city’s less-than-appealing selection of restaurants and too-public hotels. These were places where men could smoke the mild cigar and sip a fine brandy while playing cards and catching up on the news from Europe. “There was a whole class of people that didn’t have to work,” says Hugh Davids Scott Greenway ’71, a member of both...

Author: By Samuel Hornblower, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

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