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...shoes started to take off in 1997, when, in an attempt to ignite its lackluster image and sales, Puma enlisted revered designer Jil Sander to create a limited-edition women's running shoe. It was basically a standard-issue Puma, with a gold Jil Sander logo. But the fashion cognoscenti loved it, and suddenly the Puma name was chic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Sneakers? Not. | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...sigma can be small. Missing one question on a large exam can be the difference between getting the sigma or missing the mean. Some students take especial pleasure in getting not one, but two standard deviations above the average. Such an accomplishment is often whispered about among the cognoscenti for weeks, partly out of fear, amazement and the comforting knowledge that their one sigma is just as good...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Did You Make The Sigma? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...short, black and white, and with and without the "holster" (the leather band around the shoulder and ribs), manages to be both austere and sexy and serious and glamorous. Clearly it's a look that will be most appreciated, as all Lang's garments are, by the fashion cognoscenti, but it's also one that any reasonably confident woman (with great triceps) could wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Design | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...short, black and white, and with and without the "holster" (the leather band around the shoulder and ribs), manages to be both austere and sexy and serious and glamorous. Clearly it's a look that will be most appreciated, as all Lang's garments are, by the fashion cognoscenti, but it's also one that any reasonably confident woman (with great triceps) could wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...instead the exalted ranks of “The Targets”: the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), various media outlets, Washington, New York. Flu-like symptoms and a 60-day regimen of Cipro have come to separate the sheep from the goats, the cognoscenti from the provincials. We want anthrax because it would mean that someone, somewhere, thinks we are important enough to kill. The American preoccupation with fame isn’t dead; it’s just dormant. In peacetime, a book contract or bodyguard or a big pair of designer sunglasses...

Author: By Phoebe M. W. kosman, | Title: Important Enough to be a target | 11/13/2001 | See Source »

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