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...show entitled “Evolve” traced how clothing has helped Koreans and Korean Americans to establish their identity. Models wearing traditional gowns with wide, high-waist skirts and cropped jackets were the first to cross the catwalk. The gowns are called hanboks and, like their Japanese counterpart, the kimono, they uniquely identify a nation...
...running mate to make up his mind by the end of the year.) The weekend before, House minority leader Dick Gephardt, who represents St. Louis, made his third visit to New Hampshire in less than a year, ostensibly to honor a Super Bowl bet he had made with his counterpart in the New Hampshire legislature. And not long before that, Vietnam veteran John Kerry brought Democrats in Concord, N.H., to their feet with a stirring defense of their right to question Bush's handling of the war on terror...
Outshining his counterpart from Harvard, despite the pair of losses, was Brown sophomore goalie Yann Danis. Danis rebounded from a weaker performance on Friday night in which he surrendered rebounds on most Harvard shots, allowing four goals on 35 shots. On Saturday, however, Danis stopped an incredible 66 shots—a Harvard record by an opposing goaltender—in the decisive game of the series...
...good law enforcement by the Mexicans, and that "it was the government of Mexico that followed up on the lead and made the arrest." The arrest comes at the best possible moment for the often rocky relations between the neighboring nations. President Bush is due to visit his Mexican counterpart on March 20. Laying groundwork for that visit, Hutchinson went to Mexico two weeks ago to meet with Attorney General Macedo and other top officials. There, he says, he reemphasize that the Bush administration placed top priority on the capture of Benjamin and Ramon Arellano Felix, who are indicted...
...influence" and "access" Enron hoped to get in exchange for a contemplated $500,000 donation to the International Accounting Standards Board, which harmonizes accounting standards among nations--something Enron was presumably very interested in. Sources tell TIME that since 1989, Enron gave $46,000 to that body's U.S. counterpart, the Financial Accounting Standards Board...