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...Brits have all but given up on our disaffected youth. Their surly demeanor and vicious behavior represent a consummate failure of the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown era. The people who once famously claimed to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" chose instead to be even tougher on the victims of crime. Some young hooded lout threatens you or your family's safety, so you clip his ear, and an army of social workers springs to his defense, while the full might and majesty of the law are brought down upon you, with all the consequent personal...
Indeed, ever since Antonio Ratti borrowed $5 from his father to open his eponymous company, Ratti has been printing everything from silk pocket squares to couture fabrics for a long roster of creative talent. The postwar years were a new era for Italian textiles?a renaissance of color and patterns after so much gray and black?and Ratti said his aim was to build a company that was both commercial and creative. Designing and printing ties at first, Ratti added scarves, pocket squares and ascot ties, quickly developing a reputation for and love of paisleys?one of the most complicated...
...will be looking for strong outings from Haviland and fellow senior starter Brad Unger, as well as junior Max Warren and sophomore Dan Zailskas, who will make up the weekend rotation on the mound against the Bulldogs. Warren in particular has been impressive, leading the Crimson with a 3.71 ERA and notching the team’s only save of the season.“Max Warren has stepped up for us big time,” Haviland said. “He’s been, in his past 20 innings or so, pretty unhittable.”Harvard?...
...educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise the collection, she turns her anthropological eye on our own era of increased complexity and globalization, and suggests that the double consciousness she identified in her earlier works might actually be treble.This more complex worldview is evident from the first page of the title story. When we meet the protagonist Ruma, a young mother recently relocated to Seattle, she?...
...over rival bids from private equity firms because Tata understands the heritage of Jag and the motoring culture that produced it. "Buying this kind of thing builds a kind of permanent bridge between us," says Lt. Gen. M.R. Kochhar, president of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, a repository of colonial-era rules and British class-system etiquette in the heart of the Indian capital. "Both of us love the products, or at least the history of the products...