Word: craning
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...shelves for months. The mood this summer is decidedly sharper, and designers are taking their inspiration from origami. At the Christian Dior haute couture show, models posed in intricately tucked, bowed and creased ensembles, while Italian design company Pallucco's complex Glow lamp could easily double for a paper crane. For a more loosely based interpretation, turn to MOMA Design Store's curvy leather caterpillar or Ligne Roset's angular Facett chair. Even Lalique has come into the fold with Vibration, a collection of crystal pieces inspired by the ancient Japanese art form...
...poor countries," says Littlefield. Microlenders counter that the costs of starting a bank are so high that without them, the poor would have no alternative. "To build a bank in Africa, you need $5 million to start, and then another $3 million in minimum equity capital," says Chris Crane, CEO of Opportunity International, an Illinois-based Christian microlender. Crane's network of 12 microbanks worldwide has nearly $160 million in savings accounts and insures more than 3 million lives...
...what makes his bid for the White House so tricky is the rest of the package, the blue-state mores in the red-state party, along with an operatic personality and a tragicomic domestic life worthy of Boston Legal's Denny Crane. The first marriage, to a second cousin. Extramarital affairs. The messy divorce from his second wife, who learned he was leaving her when he mentioned it at a press conference. Rudy Giuliani is the candidate most likely to field the question, Are you now or have you ever been a prickly, backstabbing tyrant...
...February and used a centuries-old process known as lost-wax casting in order to make rubber moldings of the bells, which they brought back to Russia and used to make the casts for the replacements. The original bells came to Lowell in 1930, when American industrialist Charles R. Crane donated them to the University. He had purchased them in Russia, where Stalin was closing all of the churches and melting their bells for raw materials. The Danilov Monastery, the bells’ original home, was spared destruction and served as an orphanage for children of dissidents. The monastery reopened...
...seventy years ago, in the face of Stalin’s anti-religious purge, the once-famed and numerous bells of Moscow were melted down. One of the few sets to survive the era, the seventeen bells of the St. Danilov monastery, was bought by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government...