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Also reaching for the top shelf, Brooks Brothers, that classic bastion of off-the-rack suits, will introduce in the fall a special collection created by New York City-- based designer Thom Browne. The starting price for a three-piece suit will be $3,000. And these suits cut a strikingly different figure from the run-of-the-mill boxy gray Brooks Brothers fare. Browne, who is known for his extreme silhouette of tight-fitting shoulders and cropped cuffed pants, delved into the archives and came up with astrakhan-trimmed tattersall coats and gray flannel pants embroidered with fleece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Like a Million Dollars | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...first-ever Advising Fortnight allows—some might say forces—freshmen to explore the 44-concentration cornucopia that Harvard has to offer. There is no doubt that (in classic Harvard style) overeager students will take advantage of joint concentrations and secondary fields to mix and match, making the possibilities endless...or exactly 1,640, for all you math concentrators. Here are a few: East Asian Studies + Music = The Song Dynasty Earth and Planetary Sciences + East Asian Studies = Sailor Moon African and African American Studies + Linguistics = a concentration that clicks Environmental Science and Public Policy + Engineering Sciences = Greenough...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Cornucopia of Concentrations | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...This development forced the team to pursue increasingly elaborate fundraising initiatives—from an invitational tournament called the Crimson Classic, to a series of training seminars for high school students involved in mock trial teams...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Endangered Harvard Species | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

Pizza and a movie might sound like the makings of a low-key weekend night. But when the pizza is made from matzah and the movie is a cult classic about hook-ups at a Jewish summer camp, things start to get interesting. Such was the case last Saturday night when the Harvard Reform Minyan, a prayer community at Harvard Hillel, hosted a screening of “Wet Hot American Summer” to provide Passover-observing students with a kosher-friendly study break, complete with matzah pizza, Havdalah prayers, live guitar, and plenty of Manischewitz wine. Jaclyn...

Author: By Jun Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wet Hot American Passover | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...that can cause our society to lose sight of the truth’s value.But sometimes these situations are difficult to escape. I recently ran into a friend on Dunster Street, who asked me if I’d finished reading his copy of Philip Roth’s classic, “American Pastoral.”Suddenly ambushed, I heard “Yes, I loved it!” exiting my mouth with the over-enthusiasm of a coked-up Dallas Cowgirl. In reality I had only reached roughly page 20, where the narrator starts recounting...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You’ve Read ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’? Bullshit | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

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