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The Good Life: October 2010 Style

Rittenhouse goes eco-chic. Maximal Art turns 25. Fashion Week works it.

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Exit Interview: Rebecca Creskoff

On the HBO series Hung, Rebecca Creskoff plays Lenore, a deliciously manipulative life coach who’s taken up pimping. It’s not exactly the role this 39-year-old […]

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Picks From Our Style Squad: September 17, 2010

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Trends: The Retro Groom

For a timeless throwback vibe, steer your guy toward classic, masculine Mad Men-inspired pieces for his end-of-the-aisle look

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Trends: Autumn Harvest

When it comes to your fall wedding, go with the season — you can’t beat the beautiful, bold, natural colors already all around you

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Trends: Sophisticated Chic

For an elegant soiree that’ll never go out of style, stick to clean, streamlined styles in hues of rich chocolate brown and so-pretty powder blue.

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Trends: NYE Party

Ring in the New Year — and begin your lives together — with a festive palette of sparkling silver and formal black and white.

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College Admissions: Higher (Priced) Education

Bombarded by news about increasing costs, burgeoning student debt and plummeting endowments, moms and dads already overwrought about getting kids into college now worry what […]

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College Admissions: Getting In Do’s and Don’ts

DO Make your mark as a leader “We’re not looking for a long list of activities,” says Villanova’s Steve Merritt, “but for students who were […]

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College Admissions: The Real College Confidential

Sam Katz, 61, three-time candidate for mayor Applied to: Yale, Swarthmore, Haverford, Dickinson, Johns Hopkins. Rejected by: Yale. Went to: Johns Hopkins. “I wanted a […]

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Feature: College Admissions: The New Rules of Getting In

Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania—a.k.a. the gatekeeper at Philly’s most prestigious college—is talking about the wait-list. The wait-list, for […]

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Picks From Our Style Squad: September 10, 2010

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Picks From Our Style Squad: September 3, 2010

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The Good Life: Wellness: Four Fall 5Ks You’ll Love

Four Seasons Parkway Run and Walk Sunday, September 26thCHOP’s race down the Parkway and along West River Drive is fall’s -thousands-strong feel-good classic. $14 to […]