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...hope I’ll never know what it’s like to have a New York nervous breakdown, but if the price of emotional stability means never sitting in the front row at a New York fashion show, I might have to take my Prozac with my Prada...
...When Don left, Lowell got a temporary manager and a new person put in charge of supply and ordering,” he explained. “But those people weren’t that well informed, and there was a breakdown in communication between the serving and supply staff...
...four days of intense negotiations at a secluded guesthouse in Beijing, officials from each of the participating countries?China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the U.S.?expressed their satisfaction with a process the chief achievement of which was to have avoided falling apart entirely. "There was no breakdown but no breakthrough," says Lee Chung Min, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul. "It was another round of shadow boxing...
...redeeming option available," reports Cazenave. "Some women start wearing a veil just to get their parents off their backs or escape sexual harassment" from men who assume unveiled women are inviting abuse. Kedadouche, a member of France's High Council of Integration, cites his own recent encounter with social breakdown. Just this month he resigned from the list of Paris-area candidates for regional elections in March posted by France's ruling Union for a Popular Movement Party. Initially slated for a prominent slot on the roster, Kedadouche was stunned to learn that he had been assigned an unelectable spot...
...read only behind closed doors in University Hall and in department heads’ offices. A week later, after another Faculty meeting, professors again questioned Summers’ handling of Allston, complaining that they had not been provided with as many details as they would like on the exact breakdown of Allston expenditures...