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Enormous bags may be the rage for lugging around during the day, but when the sun goes down, nothing is more glamorous than being able to hold everything in an itty-bitty clutch. Small enough to grasp with a hand or tuck under the arm, the best of the bunch come with a glimmering façade. Uber-trendy Botkier makes one with a chain, while Anya Hindmarch and Salvatore Ferragamo offer more traditional, ladylike silhouettes. These diminutive accessories are an easy way to incorporate metallics into the wardrobe...
Krug’s the heart and the project’s steadying influence. “All Fires,” appearing halfway through the album, is his most effective vehicle to date. He howls the tale of a flooding town in which drowning villagers clutch debris to stay above water (“Five hundred pieces means five hundred float/One thousand people means five hundred don’t.”) above gentle tremolo guitars and whistling synths. It’s the high point of the album, and a moment that’s hard...
...trend these days is poseur-kitsch. Chain stores like Urban Outfitters, Jasmine Sola, and the Garage’s newest clutch of shops have adopted the crass marketing strategy of oozing collegiate campiness...
...attention to the main event - and to her most probable opponent, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. He and his lieutenants have made it clear that they intend to focus their campaign on clamping down on immigration and doing more to integrate foreigners. But aside from that they have announced a clutch of new policies meant to lessen the tax burden, loosen up labor rules, and set free the largely frustrated entrepreneurial spirit of the French people. Sarkozy's talk of a "rupture" with the past has engendered plenty of ill will among the pro-Chirac traditionalists of his party, the Union...
...next Friday’s contest against Princeton plunged Harvard headlong into what would end up being an eight-game tailspin.Playing at Lavietes Pavilion, the Crimson again led late—this time by six with under a minute to play—but a series of turnovers and clutch Princeton shots set up a buzzer-beating jumper by guard Noah Savage which gave the Tigers a 60-59 win. Harvard coach Frank Sullivan called it at the time “Not only the most heartbreaking loss of the season, but in awhile...