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This is Prada's hallmark: irreverence mixed with industry. Her love of fabric dates back to her childhood and her family history: her mother was originally from the Como region of northern Italy where the silk textile factories are located. "I had silk in my hands all the time," Prada says, "the finest silk made with the thin threads of silk?a quality no longer available...
...before her acrobat father took her back to her birthplace. After cabaret owner Louis Leplée discovered her singing in the street, Piaf was soon topping the bill in the city's most exalted venues and conquering America. Oh, and don't forget the miracle that cured her childhood blindness and rumors of her involvement in Leplée's 1936 murder...
...really going to take off at Harvard. You’re welcome. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I think that’s what Jesus would do. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: backstreet’s back alright Favorite childhood toy: toothpaste Favorite part about Harvard: the pretty views, the foreignors, and Quincy grille food Describe yourself in three words: Giant, decalingual (is that a word...whatever means speaks ten languages), and lying In 15 minutes you are: Eating cheese fries if all the pennies in my wallet total...
...Government and International Studies is welcoming and warm, and the Haitian painting on her bookshelf is a reminder of her own heritage. Her parents immigrated from Haiti to New York City, where Gay was born. With her father working for the U.S. government, Gay spent most of her childhood abroad in places as far away as Saudi Arabia. She later attended a New Hampshire boarding school, then studied economics at Stanford. While there, she first encountered the problem of finding the data to answer the questions she thought needed answering. “The challenge of relying on surveys done...
...civilizations and cultures that once lay beyond the dominion (and ken) of Western civilization, those located in Africa have been portrayed as the furthest back on the dark end of the continuum. Hegel wrote, “Africa proper…is the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night.” Despite the incredible ignorance and falsity of this embarrassing pronouncement, it still echoes in the minds of people of all colors around the world...