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...Penne, that means the students tour the factory floor, where they observe some of the 220 steps (and 20 hours) that go into making a single jacket. Some 1,500 suits a week are turned out, with prices ranging from $3,385 off the rack to $4,740 custom-made. In the silent hum of the manual assembly line, the students can see the 60 stitches that go into one buttonhole and watch the fabric being hand-cut with 13-in. scissors. Still, most of their time is spent, needle and thread in hand, in a brightly lit third-floor...
...pleased that Stein has the courage to write about his feelings about the "violent tribal custom" of circumcision, but I do not understand why he cannot stand up to his wife and why he would do something that he is "pretty sure is wrong." Please, Mr. Stein, do not do it! Nobody has the right to make such a decision for another human being. Vincent Favata, ELMWOOD PARK...
...antisnipping crusaders argue that the ancient Greeks rejected this violent tribal custom of the Jews and Muslims; hardly anyone practices it anymore besides those groups and Americans. They argue that the Jews created it as a way either to exclude women from their club or to ritualize the sacrifice of the firstborn male. They say it was brought to the U.S. in Victorian times only as a means of reducing masturbation by limiting sensation, in what has to be the biggest failed medical experiment in history...
Harvard has signed another custom loan agreement to increase borrowing options for graduate students, some of whom have had trouble securing funding in the wake of the credit crunch, University officials announced yesterday. The deal with the Harvard University Employees Credit Union will allow eligible Harvard graduate students to borrow a maximum of $250,000 for their education without a co-signer—a safety net required by many lenders. Discussions with HUECU have been ongoing for the past six weeks, and the recently completed contract will take effect on April 23 for the next three years. The arrangement?...
...first lady generally attend, along with other notables ranging from Beltway celebs (Attorney General Janet Reno read attendees a story called "Queen Janet from the Bunny Planet" in 1997) to full-on stars (the Jonas Brothers performed last year). And, of course, there is egg rolling - a European custom of murky origin wherein a hard-boiled egg is pushed, dragged, flung or otherwise propelled across a lawn with a long-handled spoon. Every child leaves with a wooden souvenir egg bearing the printed signatures of the day's hosts, the President and first lady. (See pictures of colorful religious festivals...