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...tailors have licensed franchises in Asia. Others, like Boateng and Gieves & Hawkes, also sell ready-to-wear and made-to-measure clothes. The latter, unlike bespoke, are altered from block patterns rather than being custom-made - bespoke suits are cut by hand from scratch to meet the buyer's exact build, gleaned from 35 different measurements and requiring at least three fittings, and then stitched almost entirely by hand...
...difference between now and that period several months ago is that Sauer and his men feel they have the initiative. The Americans, Sauer says, could have responded with house-to-house searches and other heavy-handed tactics. But, he says, "That would be the exact example of what [the attackers] want me to do so they can turn the population back in their favor." Now, U.S. troops, not local Shi'ite militiamen, have the initiative and set the tone in this area of Baghdad. Sauer and his men have set to work pursuing leads to track down the militants behind...
...where does that leave Bolton allies like Cheney and his hard-line advisers, and the few remaining neocons scattered through the national security bureaucracy? "You will never know what the VP's exact interaction with the President is," says Bolton, "But the VP is still closer to the President's basic instincts than anyone else." Bolton's explanation for the shift in White House policy: "The President may be distracted by the Iraq war or other events... but there's no doubt that the President has moved heartbreakingly away from his own deepest impulses on the three principal issues...
...president Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said that the HOLLIS catalog, the extensive database of the Harvard University Libraries, does not currently give students access to the ISBN numbers they need.“Using the HOLLIS search method doesn’t get us the exact same [editions],” Petersen said. “Most students want the same edition that the professor and students around them are using.”While the faculty members on the committee generally acknowledged that the current system of distributing book information needs improvement, they brought up several...
Casey said it would be difficult to determine the exact financial effects of the congressional cap, as it is not yet clear precisely which expenses will be subject...