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...truth universally acknowledged that Nordstrom stores have wrapped up the title for top-of-the-line customer service. They will take back returns with a smile, hail you a cab and send out a salesclerk and tailor with armloads of clothes if you're too busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since...
...Thirty-Six Ways to Turn Your Bathroom into a Place You Would Want to Spend the Entire Afternoon In"--and the article was terminally dopey, as any article about hipness would be. You don't hear New Yorkers talk about how hip their city is; they talk about harrowing cab rides, rapacious plumbers, crackheads on the sidewalk, all the usual urban horrors. New Yorkers know it's not cool to talk about being hip. Some Midwesterners don't understand that...
...finally caved in and bought a tux. Or you got your credit card bill for dinner at the Four Seasons, a corsage/boutiniere, a cab home and two tickets to the Citystep formal. Or you've been wondering what to do Saturday night when all your roommates are at your house winter formal with their boyfriends. One way or another, Harvard's obsession with formals has probably come to your attention...
...acting for the most part was fine: actors dealt well with the aforementioned weaknesses in plot and portrayed the stereotypes effectively. Some of the funniest scenes included cameo appearances by Mike Sugarman '98 as Vladimir, a cab driver who barely speaks English, who Janie's parents thought would be a good match...
...factory in Shanghai. Then the nearly bankrupt firm laid off 300 workers, promising Gao 300 yuan a month to stay home. "These changes offered new opportunities," says Gao, and so he cobbled together $1,100 and enrolled in a course for taxi drivers. Gao now drives a shiny Santana cab for another state enterprise, and his take-home pay is pegged to his own moxie. On average, he says, he earns $240 a month plying his route from...