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...that long-time luxury shoppers grew more frugal, too. The widely publicized bailout of Bear Stearns, the takeout of cash-strapped Merrill Lynch, the government rescue of American International Group, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the meltdown in the credit markets - all served to rattle the upscale crowd, as many work in the financial industry. Fashionable free-spenders morphed into penny savers...
...more modern interpretation of the term rather than the supernatural Shakespearean conception—work to set the tone for the evening. In a style that would do Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes proud, these golden boys sparkle atop the rolling cubes set in the dance floor crowd, on which much of the action takes place, allowing the show to be appreciated from all angles. Almost naked except for shining booty shorts and eyeliner, they invite members of the crowd to dance with them as DJ Orlando Chachenski (Samson Kohanski) takes everyone back to Funkytown, or at least...
...great team effort—a lot of guys jumped out,” Farrar said. “Everybody played really well. I’m very pleased.” “It was great to get a win in front of the home crowd, start off divisional play 1-0,” said co-captain Egen Atkinson, citing team defense and a “stellar” performance by senior goalie Nikhil Balaraman as crucial to the win. A successful transition game was another key aspect of Harvard’s victory. Tallying four...
...Sept. 12, a large crowd gathered in Washington to protest ... what? The goals of Congress and the Obama Administration, mainly - the cost, the scale, the perceived leftist intent. The crowd's agenda was wide-ranging, so it's hard to be more specific. "End the Fed," a sign read. A schoolboy's placard denounced "Obama's Nazi Youth Militia." Another poster declared, "We the People for Capitalism Not Socialism." If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, many of them greedy racists. If you get your information from conservative sources, the crowd was hundreds...
...flood stage, and who's to blame? The answer is like the estimates of the size of the crowd in Washington: Whom do you trust? Either the corrupt, communist-loving traitors on the left are causing this, or it's the racist, greedy warmongers on the right, or maybe the dishonest, incompetent, conniving media, which refuse to tell the truth about whomever you personally happen to despise...