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...last few years, super-simple LA-based American Apparel has ingrained itself in hipster culture on both coasts while simultaneously expanding to become the USA’s largest clothing manufacturer, with hundreds of retail locations all over the world. The philosophy behind its fashion falls somewhere between comfy minimalism and 1980s thrift-store retro. But, given its prices, its clientele, and a recession, the question arises—will there be a place for t-shirts and spandex that simply cost too much?In the late 1990s, Dov Charney—hailed before as the Larry Flynt of fashion?...
...psychologically “emasculate” China and Korea during the war. Kang said her story of abduction was not unique. Before reaching the age of puberty, Kang said, she was taken from her home in the GyeongSang province in southeastern South Korea to a Japanese military base in China. She said she was relocated several times before winding up at a comfort station in Manchuria where she lived until the end of the war, locked in a cell and raped repeatedly. “Five or six soldiers would come every day. Some insisted on not wearing condoms...
...legend of the daredevil building-hop continued Oct. 18 with the 29th annual Bridge Day in Fayetteville, West Virginia - the largest group BASE jumping event in the world. 383 people made the 876-foot leap off the New River Gorge Bridge. Only three were taken to the hospital, making it a successful year: three people have died during Bridge Day, the most recent being...
...BASE jump is a parachuted jump from a fixed object - a mountain, a building, anything that rises high into the air. The term is an acronym for the types of structures off of which jumpers fling themselves: Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges) and Earth (rocks). Carl Boenish, a cinematographer who had been filming freefall parachuting for several years, coined the term in 1981 as a way to categorize various jumps...
...Barack Obama, at least not in public, at least not where the neighbors can hear.Last weekend, I joined the Harvard College Democrats on their canvassing trip to this relic of Americana. For two days, we knocked the doors of the people that were once Hillary Clinton’s base. They are the new swing vote, for a reason that all but the most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never...