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...familiar refrain these days. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purse-Party Blues | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

Much to my chagrin, a unanimous second rang out from the one in eight delegates who had stumbled into the arena by that point, with no objections halting Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s order of events. Moments later, several members of the rules committee bounded on stage, advancing steadily on the mahogany podium more distant from where I had just been sitting, ready for their moment in the spotlight—if appearing on C-SPAN to enthusiastically announce the unanimous endorsement of the convention’s rules even qualifies...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Searching for My Very Own Cross of Gold | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

Kennedy School of Government professor David Gergen is described as urging Clinton to disclose documents about the Whitewater real estate scandal—advice which the former president, to his eventual chagrin, decided against...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton's 'Life' Tinted Crimson | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

Much to their chagrin, the Crimson rowers proved unable to snap the inglorious streak on the seventh try, capping their 2004 campaign with a fifth-place showing on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., where adverse weather conditions precluded a proper title defense...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lights Attempt To Shake Even-Year Jinx Fails | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

That’s good news for an offensive line plagued by injuries, one which saw at least five players’ time limited by injury, much to the sidelined Frey’s chagrin...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Added Weight Helps Mazza Fly | 5/12/2004 | See Source »

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