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While more than 750 students danced to the songs of Wham! and the Bangles in the Leverett dining hall, hundreds more tried to push their way in, forcing the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) detail officer on hand to call for backup...
...Michael R. Colton '97, set a date to meet with Dean Epps and Dean Mackay-Smith. When they arrived, Epps and Mackay-Smith said they could not talk about the specifics of my case; despite the fact I had just published an editorial describing the case in detail, they claimed to need my official permission. Of course, the deans had known of the meeting for nearly a week in advance and had failed to mention this requirement to any of the students involved. During this meeting, Mackay-Smith hinted to Colton and Braunstein that there was more to this case...
...shock. Why not a top French designer like Jean-Paul Gaultier to assume the Givenchy mantle? Or if it had to be a foreigner, why not Vivienne Westwood, a more experienced Brit, who has shown in Paris for years and even troubled to study Dior's own output in detail? But Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH owns both Dior and Givenchy, is betting his money that the route to a younger market--the new, galvanizing image that has evaded the old couture houses in recent years--lies across the Channel. For if Galliano is famous for his sizzling sense of romance...
...fresh talent for their ateliers. CSM is not the only prominent fashion academy; Britain is known for its tradition of craft and in general supports artisans. But other schools tend toward commercial and technical values, emphasizing the set of a sleeve or production expertise. CSM takes it easy on detail, preferring individuality. Of his time there, McQueen says it was "loverly mixing with people of the same persuasion...
Though your article "Read All About It" was compelling, it missed the mark badly with regard to the health of the newspaper industry [BUSINESS, Oct. 21]. Newspapers provide news and information with detail, depth and a connection to readers' local communities that are unmatched by any other news medium. Daily readership today, at 64.2%, is comparable to what it was in 1985, and Sunday readership has actually grown consistently over the past 20 years to its current level of 72.6%. Although 1995 saw the closing of several papers, that was largely the result of the high cost of newsprint...