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Read "Women in Luxury" An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified net-a-porter.com as an invitation-only discount retailer; it is a full-price fashion retailer that requires neither invitation nor membership...
...loss to Hofstra concluded the weekend. It bears repeating that this sort of opening performance is not necessarily cause for panic. First of all, Harvard’s caliber of schedule is no joke. Hofstra was coming off a near-upset of No. 25 Indiana and beat Princeton earlier in the year. As for Long Beach State, the 49ers had dominated No. 21 Missouri, 4-1, before heading to Cambridge. Just as importantly, last year’s team also took some time to get going, and look where they ended up—the NCAA Tournament. To take...
...career as a writer.The Harvard Crimson: How did you meet Deogratias, and what compelled you to write about him?Tracy Kidder: I actually met him at Harvard, at Eliot House, about 3 years ago. I’d come to see Paul Farmer [the subject of his earlier book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains”] who had an apartment there. Deo told the outlines of his story to my wife, and as we were driving away, my wife told me a fragment of the story that he told her, and it sat in the back of my mind...
...current economy, a number of already cash-strapped states can hardly afford Medicaid at current levels, let alone an expansion. Ohio, for example, would likely have had to cut back on its existing Medicaid benefits if it hadn't been for the stimulus funds the state received earlier this year. Many people on Medicaid also would be absorbed into the so-called exchanges in which lower-income people would purchase their insurance, a move that some Democrats don't like. "Everybody gets to keep the insurance they have except if you're poor, and that's the State Children...
...relies on a network of businessmen and fundraisers such as Ezzeddine, not just in southern Lebanon but also in West Africa, South America and wherever expatriate Lebanese do business. Hizballah has been trying to become financially independent from its main patron, Iran (which has its own financial problems), and earlier this year, a Hizballah official told TIME the organization is close to becoming completely self-sustaining. What effect the Ezzeddine scandal has on those plans remains to be seen...