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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fear that many other Harvard services and traditions are next in line. Freshman Parents Weekend may become Parent Saturday. And those infamous, trendy lanyards that everyone (yes everyone) at Harvard dons around their necks? Next year they’ll be just a single, unknotted red string that you drape hopelessly over your shoulder...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: There's No Time To Read This | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...After you recovered these soldiers, what happened next? We would place the remains in a transfer case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...hide what’s not flattering.” Indeed, her loose silhouettes embody easy comfort and simplicity, as do the cotton and linen materials she chooses to work with. A combination of East and West, Gao’s clothes offer modern shapes that flatteringly fit and drape the body, at the same time evoking the linen shifts peasant-farmers wore in the late imperial period of China. Though Gao verbalized a distinction between Asian and American style, her ability to blend East and West seamlessly in her design aesthetic suggests that perhaps the divide between...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: East-West Face Fashion Fissure | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...Twenty miles (32 km) outside city limits at the Boynton Beach Mall, 17-year-old Jay Johnson lets his black shirt drape over dropped shorts. "My dad and my mom don't like it," he says. "You gotta listen to your parents. And I know it's hard to find a job with your pants down low, so you fix them." Some who are against the fashion argue there is no need for a fashion police, despite sagging's association with gangsta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saggy-Pants Furor in Riviera Beach | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

Five young men in sneakers and jeans troop into a waiting room at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., and drape themselves all over the chairs in classic collapsed-teenager mode, trailing backpacks, a CD player and a laptop loaded with computer games. It's midafternoon, and they are, of course, tired, but even so their presence adds a jangly, hormonal buzz to the bland, institutional setting. Fair-haired twins Corey and Skyler Mann, 16, and their burlier big brothers Anthony and Brandon, 18, who are also twins, plus eldest brother Christopher, 22, are here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Teens Tick | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

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