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Parachuted into Brioni's school?founded 20 years ago after company chiefs saw a need for in-house training for the next generation of master tailors and middle managers?the London students aim to absorb all the best tricks and traditions behind the Italian company's signature handmade suits. Though the students include aspiring designers of women's wear, jewelry and shoes, the school believes the men's-tailoring know-how and Italian alta moda culture that rub off will be useful for the careers of all of them. "This is a chance to actually see real craft in action...
...made it a tradition in the first place,” he says. As a co-founder of the Harvard College American Music Association, Gurney has worked to give such traditional tunes a place in the school’s wide-ranging music scene. The Association’s aim is to expose Harvard students to traditional music. Last year, the association invited banjo player Béla Fleck, this year bassist Edgar Meyer. The club’s weekly jam sessions, as well as performances by Gurney’s own band, The Hay Brigade, have strengthened folk music?...
...Granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today--notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
...Lario's latest public swipe took aim at her husband's plans to put politically inexperienced, easy-on-the-eyes young women on the ballot for the European Parliament elections in June. "Somebody has written that this is all for the entertainment of the emperor," she told the ANSA news service. "I agree. [It] is shameless trash, all in the name of power." Lario said that she and the three grown children she has with Berlusconi "are victims and not accomplices in this situation. We must bear it, and it causes us to suffer...
...aim is not to protect its seats in Modi's Gujarat, according to Mrug. The party fully expects to win very comfortably there. "But the BJP would certainly try and make use of his charisma and his newfound status as a martyr in states that have not yet gone to the polls and where no leader of Modi's stature has yet appeared," Mrug says. These include Rajasthan, western Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana, among others. (Read about how India's young voters may change the country...