Her Headline: Balance is important

Home: Quincy House and Alexandria, Virginia

Concentration: East Asian Studies.

Et cetera: Yes, she was born in June.

Her pick for the sexiest man alive: I have lust in my heart for Jimmy Carter.

Why Jimmy and not, say, Daniel Day Lewis: Well, he's a bleeding-heart liberal who does something about it. I like that. On a visceral, esthetic level, Daniel Day works for me. But I haven't done anything about it.

Why she wanted to be co-editor of Fifteen Minutes: To foment positive social change.

Best thing about the job: Co-ruling my own queendom.

Worst thing about the job: 4 a.m. the morning of a seminar presentation, sitting up with the Imagesetter, begging it, coaxing it, pleading with it to print the FM pages.

Why 'easy listening' is underrated: To be quite honest, I don't know. I guess there are too many intellectual snobs out there who don't stop and take time to allow themselves to be moved, touched by beautiful music. I mean, I think only the coldest of cold hearts would not be moved by Jeffrey Osborne's "On the Wings of Love."

Finest slow song of all time: Cowboy Junkies' "Blue Moon Revisted."

Whether she'd describe herself as a 'meat and potatoes kind of gal': Yes, definitely. Though a side salad is very important as well. Nutritional balance, you know.

Most lasting effect of attending an all-girls high school: I like boys more than I should. Ann Taylor is the end-all, be-all of dressing for success.

The quirkiest thing about The Harvard Crimson: We like meetings.

Her thesis topic: That's not funny.