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...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
...sarcastically said to stand for "God Is Speaking"). A rich store of anecdotes spans what were, arguably, the most tumultuous periods of Hong Kong's history-the civil unrest and refugee influx of the late 1960s, the social changes wrought by the rapid industrialization of the 1970s, and the 1980s boom years (which were never fully enjoyed, owing to the deep anxieties surrounding Hong Kong's return to China in 1997). The book nears conclusion with Moss's eventual appointment as department head and it also-in a marvelous final twist-relates a fall of sorts. During his career, Moss...
...Palm Beach and the state's eastern Treasure Coast, can stomach more comfortably in the voting booth. Mahoney, in fact, was himself a Republican until he decided to challenge Foley last year. Born in New Jersey and raised an Irish Catholic Democrat, he became a Reagan Republican in the 1980s; his platform is heavy on economic-related issues like the growing financial struggles of small businesses in Florida. But he returned to the Democrats, he says, because of the Bush Administration and the G.O.P.'s hard turn to the right. "I realized their Republican values were not my Republican values...
...students apply to 12 or more colleges, and only 150 of the nation's 3,500 colleges are so selective that they turn down more than half their applicants. Forty-four percent of colleges accept every single applicant. Some graduates do move home after college, but in the 1980s, more 18-to-34-year-olds lived at home than do today, according to census data. Constant distortions like these have unintended consequences. A survey of young Latinos showed many hadn't applied to college at all because they had heard colleges are too selective and too expensive...