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Perhaps he just disagrees with Hillary's health-care platform. But as Martha Stewart and Katie Couric have discovered, high-powered women are prone to the Goldilocks dilemma: This one's too hard! That one's too soft! "Women aren't allowed to express their ambitions sometimes," says Oliver Goldstick, writer-producer of Lipstick. "There's a long tradition of Hollywood pictures where powerful women are punished for their success...
...squash team (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) opened the second half of its season with a deceptively close 2-7 loss to No. 5 Trinity (12-2) Wednesday evening in Hartford, Conn. The Bantams were the first top-5 team that the Crimson had faced after a relatively soft early season schedule. With the loss, Harvard fell from the ranks of the unbeaten with the toughest stretch of the season still ahead. “With exams and shopping period, I felt we were a little slow out of blocks,” head coach Satinder Bajwa said...
...delegate treasure troves of California, New York and Missouri - gave the perennial underdog a novel air of inevitability. But the wins don't appear to be enough to knock Mitt Romney nor the surprisingly resurgent Mike Huckabee out of the race quite yet. More worrisome is that McCain's soft vote tallies in southern states and the Bible Belt, as well as in exit poll results of conservatives across the country, exposed a profound weakness with the party's base...
...posted an unexpected 5-4 win over the Quakers, giving the Crimson a real shot at going 3-0. It was the struggles of the Jekyl-and-Hyde foil fencers that really hurt the squad’s chances against Penn. After beating two soft opponents in Yale and Princeton, the foilists dropped the ball against the Quakers, falling 6-3. They had marked the high-point of the fall season, punishing opposing squads in lopsided victories. “I think they had an off day today,” Brand said. “Today they just seemed...
...years ago, the local McDonald's menu listed french fries as simply "potato" or Filet-o-Fish as "fish hamburgers"; most are items now ordered by more familiar names and some, like the 100-yen cheese burger and sandwiches with steamed buns, are popular because they are cheap or soft. "Toasted buns are too hard for them," says manager Hayato Akasako. "They like the Filet-o-Fish and the shrimp burger." Akasako also says the elderly don't shy from trying new things. Upon ordering, some of them now present downloaded electronic coupons on the screens of their mobile phones...