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...hitched in 2002’).” Whoa there, Glamour. I know this whole astrology thing is a big joke we inexplicably like to include in the morning paper and call 1-800 numbers about, but since when is it okay to slip a little tidbit like that into a harmless parenthesis. The reading “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution” would have been fine, something I could label vague and generally inoffensive advice. A wild resolution could be anything from “start trying to decide...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, ANTOINETTE C. NWANDU | Title: In the Stars | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...last British tidbit: the Wonderbum—a wonderbra for the buttocks—is going to come on the market by the end of 2002, or in about

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Minutes | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...film producer who made history as the first woman ever to win a best picture Oscar (for The Sting in 1973), she became downright infamous after her 1991 autobiography, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, mercilessly blasted the biggest names in showbiz. A typically scathing tidbit: describing how Warren Beatty had asked if she and her pre-teen daughter would join him in a threesome, Phillips allegedly replied, "Warren, we're both too mature for you." Lunch in this town just got a little less spiky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 1/14/2001 | See Source »

...with specific and knowing details. Bowdoin's admissions committee was on the fence about an applicant who had good grades but below-average test scores. Then it scanned his two recommendations. "A rare gem," said one letter; the other called him a "mature humanitarian." Most compelling, though, was a tidbit missing from the rest of the application. The student had come up with a unique scheme for supporting world-famine relief: he pledged his weekly allowance and persuaded his parents to give matching grants. Cornell readers were similarly impressed with a letter that touted an applicant's papers on Billie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside College Admissions | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...with specific and knowing details. Bowdoin's admissions committee was on the fence about one applicant who had good grades but below-average test scores. Then it scanned his two recommendations. "A rare gem," said one letter; the other called him a "mature humanitarian." Most compelling, though, was a tidbit missing from the rest of the application. The student had come up with a unique scheme for supporting world famine relief: he pledged his weekly allowance and persuaded his parents to give matching grants. Cornell readers were similarly impressed with a letter that touted an applicant's papers on Billie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In or Out: Inside College Admissions | 10/15/2000 | See Source »

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