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...Counterfeit shopping has become something of a sport, much to the chagrin of luxury-goods manufacturers. Fake designer bags are everywhere, it seems--so easy to buy that in some circles it's almost uncool to carry the real thing. Once limited to grimy stalls on New York's Canal Street, counterfeit luxury goods can be found online and in malls, and have even turned up at discount chains such as Daffy's, based in Secaucus, N.J. Among the ladies-who-lunch crowd, purse parties, where guests buy inexpensive fakes in private homes while they sip champagne, are the latest...
...does not deserve my participation.” My voir dire would be my bully pulpit, a chance to proclaim my dissent in ringing tones, overheard and applauded by dozens of Manhattanites. Plus, I wanted to get out early and buy cheap earrings from the vendors on Canal Street...
Michael Housewert isn't your typical IRA investor. Four years ago, the real estate agent at Charde Group Inc. used $195,000 of the funds in his individual retirement account to purchase a piece of undeveloped land along a sun-washed canal on Marco Island, Fla. He sold the property two months ago for more than three times that amount, tucking a $500,000 profit back into...
...turn of the century, Lynn Nottage?s drama tells the story of a black seamstress (Viola Davis) who makes a living sewing fancy lingerie for rich society women. While patiently saving her money to open her own shop, she strikes up a correspondence with a laborer on the Panama Canal. He proposes marriage by letter, comes to New York to claim his bride, and proceeds to foul up her life. The play (first produced at California?s South Coast Rep) is almost painfully sad, yet feels alive with human warmth and American optimism. Nottage based it on the life...
...Kerry get it? Kerry led three swift boats up a canal on Feb. 28, 1969, and ordered a daring attack on Viet Cong positions. When his boat took rocket fire, Kerry directed his crew to head straight for the beach, taking the guerrilla with the rocket launcher by surprise. Kerry jumped ashore and killed...