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...they call themselves, met in Portuguese class while undergrads at Harvard. Both went on to Harvard Business School, after which Wilson worked for eBay, overseeing eBay Canada and launching eBay Motors, while Maybank ran retail operations at Bulgari and sales-forecasting at Louis Vuitton. Eventually, however, "we discovered we were spending way too much time sneaking to sample sales and taking orders for family members," Wilson says. "We thought this might be a simpler way to go about it and more fun." Only now occasional restraint is in order. "We actually have a policy that we can't buy merchandise...
...This whole crisis is like a big spring housecleaning?both moral and physical?bling is over. Red carpetry covered with rhinestones is out. I call it the "new modesty."' ?Karl Lagerfeld, designer...
...truth. Friday’s opening on the Loeb Mainstage—directed by Sara L. Wright ’09—overflowed with a vitality that managed to make these overdone themes appear refreshingly novel.The three-hour-long piece (schedule your dinner plans for before curtain call!) is a series of interconnected stories of individuals wrestling with deviant identities in Reagan-era New York City. The floor design—a white web of sorts—mimics the interwoven nature of the narratives; streaks of red and blue remind the audience of the American ideals against which...
...LTTE’s continued call for a ceasefire and insistence on international monitoring and aid for civilians goes unheeded by the UN. In mid-March, the LTTE’s political head, B. Nadesan, put out a call for the UN to directly investigate the situation on the ground instead of taking the word of the government of Sri Lanka...
...immense call of the global Tamil diaspora, as well as independent voices to cease the violence and to support self-determination of Tamils, is similarly ignored and consistently fails to be put on the agenda of the UN Security Council. The protesting diaspora is of the same generation and people who have been subject to the Sri Lankan government’s discriminatory policies and violence since Sri Lanka’s independence from the British...