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...dollars and regularly sell for hundreds. Even Levi's can run you $300. Once the classic fallback answer for the daily question of what to wear, jeans now pose an even bigger question: Which ones? Stone washed, distressed, low rise, sanded, boiled, whiskered, shredded, patched, relaxed fit, straight leg, boot leg, flare or with personally customized finish? The notion that jeans are the color they have faded to is passe. At the Gap they have run from "blasted bluegrass" to "moonlight." Next season there will be 15 more hues (or "washes," as they are called) to choose from--all blue...
...Strangely, moreover, in a country awash with guns, the boot camp is having difficulty obtaining weapons for training. Requests must go through the Ministry of Defense, the turf of Mohammad Qasim Fahim, who boasts a personal army of at least 18,000 men. In the run up to the loya jirga?an assembly to select a transitional government?current ministers are looking to shore up their own power. Fahim's support comes from his private troops, not the country's. To him, their needs take precedence, so the ANA must make do with only partially filled orders for gear. "Supporting...
...here." To replenish the ranks, Segmüller has hired a job-recruitment firm in Switzerland to tap into the potential pool of suitable candidates, which he estimates at about 30,000 in this predominantly Protestant country of 7.3 million. Now three recruiters are visiting the nation's military boot camps, Catholic parishes and seminaries, giving motivational talks about the benefits of serving in the Swiss Guard. One of them, André Wyss, retired head of recruitment for the Swiss Army, acknowledges that finding willing candidates is a difficult task. "Years ago, when Catholic families in Switzerland had many children...
Finally, the spring has brought coinciding softball and baseball success that Harvard fans have not seen in years. Softball finished 12-2 in the Ivy League and took home an ECAC Championship to boot. Junior tri-captain Tiffany Whitton, the Ivy League Player of the Year and ECAC tournament MVP, should be even better (if possible) next year...
...boot Spidey off a skyscraper, and he'll still end up on top. The same applies to Marvel, the company that created him. Four years ago, it was in Chapter 11, but three hit films based on Marvel comics--1998's Blade, 2000's X-Men and this year's Blade II--have made it a Hollywood hulk, with studios hustling to put its characters onscreen. Marvel earned $19 million in the last quarter of 2001, its first in the black since the bankruptcy. "There's an instantaneous awareness of Marvel properties among a lot of people, and that translates...