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...seductress, adventure-seeker, or opportunist than the actress was thought to be, although hers is a less intriguing and iconic story. Otilita—we learn this is her given name only in the last fifty pages of the book—first appears as Lily, an exotic Chilean schoolgirl who captures the hearts of her upper-class Peruvian classmates, including the protagonist Ricardo, who is known throughout the book as “good boy.” When she disappears after she is discovered to be neither Chilean nor upper-class, Ricardo, already lovestruck at the ripe...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Girl' Seduces, Doesn't Satisfy | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...Lawsuits aside, the game goes on, and the World Conker Championships endures. Tomos Smith, 23, a mechanical engineer who came dressed as a schoolgirl, had low expectations prior to the tournament, which was his first. "I just thought it'd be 20 people in a shed," he says. "But all in all it's been a cracking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Came, They Saw, They Conkered | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...opposite corner is Ladda Tangsupachai, 58, head of the Cultural Surveillance Department at the Ministry of Culture and a prime mover behind the legislation. Her department already scrutinizes television shows, magazines, Internet cafés and schoolgirl fashions; they are keen to take on movies. "Uneducated" is the term Ladda uses to describe Thai filmgoers. "They're not intellectuals - that's why we need ratings," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making the Cut | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...until a particularly bloody episode jars the troupe and shows that they have already committed themselves to the latter. Unfortunately, this commitment proves an indelible action. The relationship between Wong and Mr. Yee absorbs the two until it is impossible to distinguish performance from truth. Initially, Wong, an inexperienced schoolgirl, channels a darker side solely for her unfolding professional life. Yee, conversely, a man known for his animalistic brutality, bares a worn, solitary countenance behind closed doors. These two dichotomous characters unwittingly create a relationship that assumes a dual nature in itself: restrained and unbridled, violent and erotic, lustful...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lust, Caution | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...hadn't even picked a high school at that point. Boatright, now a freshman at East Aurora High outside Chicago, is the face of the latest alarming trend in the often shady game of college-sports recruiting: coaches offering scholarships to athletes very early in their schoolboy (and schoolgirl) careers. It requires teens to make a critical decision before they even grasp geometry. "It's one big circus," says Dave Telep, who covers the recruiting scene for Scout.com a website specializing in college sports. "The whole thing has gotten out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courting Eighth-Graders | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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