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After visiting the fancy-schmancy Newbury Street consignment shops with their Newbury Street prices, Planet Aid’s hip, laid-back vibe is a welcome break. Cool vintage t-shirts and polos start at $14, ’70s-style windbreakers are $20 and up and convienently broken-in hoodies...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Second Is the Best | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...hole when there is an unexpected knock at the door. After your next trek to see him in the wilds of a liberal arts school in Maine or the frat-heaven of your state university, make sure to conveniently pilfer a few articles of clothing and especially a well broken-in hat. Go to bed every night wrapped in the comfort of his Cape Cod Community College sweatshirt with the faint and wafting scent of his cologne...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: How to Keep Him on a Leash | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...catalog is not only a diversion--it's a campus survival guide. Students say J. Crew is a good source of clothing essentials--from "scoopneck tees" and "broken-in chinos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Spearmint Wishes And Apricot Dreams | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

...list of contributing authors includes renowed commentators like novelists W.P. Kinsella, Robert Coover and "Baseball for Peace" mastermind Jay Feldman, as well as many talented rookies. As for the stories themselves...you can almost feel the press of the fans and smell the seat on a broken-in mitt...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Splendor in the Grass: Writers Celebrate the Game of Baseball | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...perhaps successful way out lies in Charles de Gaulle's proposal for neutralization. Though never spelled out by De Gaulle, this would mean a negotiated peace under auspices of the U.N. or of a renewed Geneva conference, to strengthen by international guarantees the vows made-and since broken-in the original 1954 Indo-China settlement. This possibility is backed by Senators Mike Mansfield, George McGovern and others, who see defeat and humiliation for the U.S. as the only fruits of continued fighting in South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia The Alternatives: The Alternatives | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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