Word: customizers
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...coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under a half-moon. I was in Iraq to profile the American...
...football season into history. The Nov. 19 triple-overtime victory on the Crimson’s greatest stage was an emphatic conclusion to a late-season surge through injuries and turnovers that helped Harvard finish second to surprise league champion Brown.Just three days later, as has long been the custom for the Crimson’s squad, it was announced at the team’s end-of-season banquet that linebacker Matt Thomas had won a close election for captain of the 2006 unit, replacing the graduating Erik Grimm ‘05. But from that point, from...
...allies, including his sons Laurent and Philippe - now respectively a city councillor and a senator - had won only after enriching the electoral rolls with the names of 327 non-residents. Dominati, denying any wrongdoing, has claimed that adding the names of friends and relatives was "a republican custom." So, he might have argued, was the promise from Chirac this summer that he'd be named ambassador to Honduras - rich in bananas but far from French courtrooms. But according to a report in the daily Le Monde, the Drut case made that offer seem too imprudent...
GIORGIO ARMANI'S CLOTHES have represented refined luxury for an A-list clientele for more than 30 years. So in 2005, when the Italian designer finally introduced Armani Privé, his collection of women's haute couture, his female customers were elated. Now it's the men's turn. Giorgio Armani Fatto a Mano su Misura (Hand Made to Measure) will be Armani's first foray into custom-made suits. Although there are just two options for jacket styles, the possibilities for a one-of-a-kind design are limitless, thanks to a plethora of choices of fabrics, buttons and pocket...
...gasp resistance to this embrace of wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen's and Warren's) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom color you would prefer he paint your pews. "The tragedy is that Christianity has become a yes-man for the culture," says Boston University's Prothero...