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They may share a CEO, but J. Crew and its new offshoot, Madewell, are worlds apart. Madewell?more casual, less expensive and a bit more bohemian than J. Crew?was a defunct workwear company when Mickey Drexler bought the name shortly before he joined J. Crew. In 2006, Drexler assembled a team to revive the brand in a new format. Since warming up in markets across the country, Madewell has opened its New York City flagship. The two-story store (below) successfully conveys the brand's spirit with original 1882 moldings, floors and fireplaces, and a brilliant contrast of stark...
...announcement came just as cars ferrying worried Iraqis began to clog Baghdad's streets, amid tightened security checkpoints and swirling rumors of an impending curfew. But whether this recent call for restraint will actually ensure calm remains uncertain - Sadr also threatened to call off the Mahdi Army's now defunct cease-fire if attacks by government forces continued. And his response to a demand by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that he disband his militia or face exclusion from the political process was typically ambiguous: Sadr said he would put the matter to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Najaf...
...that hosted the tournament in 1997. That was the year in which Tiger Woods, a prodigiously long hitter, ushered in golf's modern era with a score of 270, still a record in Masters history. His performance, remarkable in itself, also coincided with two other innovations: experts from defunct cold war ballistics programs began designing space-age golf clubs, and new video-analysis technology enabled coaches to deconstruct Woods' swing into thousands of frames, precisely comparing his technique with that of their students. Within a few years of Woods' breakthrough victory, a new generation of professionals - armed with swollen, explosively...
Stone last won the AHCA award in 1999, when the Crimson won a national title in the now-defunct American Women’s College Hockey Association...
...each.The NCAA championship has, as of yet, eluded Stone. She led the Crimson to a national championship in the 1999 season, but that was before the NCAA began sponsoring women’s hockey as an official sport. That title was won under the auspices of the now-defunct American Women’s College Hockey Association.But the 2008 rendition of the Harvard women’s hockey team is special. It’s got speed. It’s got depth. It’s got versatility. And the Crimson is currently just a win away from...