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...None of the subjects of the photos are so blatantly heroic as the survivors in Antarctica. Instead, we see a woman in a flowered dress, looking off into the distance. An elderly woman builds a house of cards. A man wearing only briefs stands proudly straight in the middle of a snowy forest. A drag queen picks fake fruit off strings in lush greenery. A naked man walks away from an Edenic highway rest stop...
...Hidden away at MIT since 1969, when the University pushed the program off campus, the hardy band of students would probably duck the radar screen completely if not for their mandatory uniformed-Mondays. But their military existence, packed with discipline and drills, is more than just days of slick dress blacks and hats...
Forget the crown. Dress down a little. In this day and age, that's what you might expect of a monarch like Jordan's Abdullah II. But every few weeks, the 38-year-old ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom gives his wife Queen Rania a jolt by dressing up, carefully adjusting his disguise in the mirror, before heading to work in the morning. Instead of a business suit or perhaps his military uniform, he's wearing jeans, an old army jacket and--get this--an Afro wig, a bushy brown beard and some makeup to darken his eyebrows. To ensure...
...seemed safer, because its philosophy has been to sell a seemingly limitless supply of tried-and-true basics. But that strategy makes less sense at a time when people want to dress up, when they want more color, style and luxurious fabrics. On the fashion side, Gap stores were either slow to jump on seasonal raves like embellished jeans and Capri pants or they didn't have enough of them. Of-the-moment niche retailers such as J. Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch (see box) were grabbing the attention of younger shoppers...
...where we were sitting. First row, floor. I looked at Nate. He was practically giggling with glee, managing to sputter "five-feet from the ring!" I told him that I was going back outside to scalp my ticket, then going to the Prudential to buy a new holiday dress with my profit, and would meet him at the Park Street T stop at 11. I thought conceding the 2,000 words of my article for life and limb was a fair trade. Nate was still grinning...