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...School Vice Dean for Administration and Budget Howell E. Jackson on Tuesday to discuss the matter. Boyd said Jackson explained in the meeting that HLS is making an effort to reduce the number of outside attorneys advising student practice organizations, to save cash and to make use of excess capacity at the school’s Hale and Dorr office...
...whose skill at reproducing luxury looks at affordable prices is driving designers to more-difficult-to-emulate extravagance in their ready-to-wear collections. At the recent shows in Milan and Paris, even the most jaded front-row fashionistas leaned forward for a closer look at the swaths of excess. On Chanel's runway, there were tweeds that on closer inspection proved to be feather-light embroidery on tulle; at Dior, there was a flight jacket, loosely inspired by The Aviator, in ruby-red mink trimmed with crocodile, and a trench coat mixing the same exotic materials. "Will we sell...
...Come Down On Me,” the album’s best track and almost a stand-out anthem, perhaps does the best job of this, perfectly capturing the Reagan years’ excess, pride, and belief in the future through a constantly moving synth line with periodic booms from lower registers...
...center, Melinda can boast a charismatic actress. Mitchell has often been cast as the excess-baggage wife (Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Finding Neverland). Here, channeling the neuroses of all preceding Allen heroines, she exudes a hurt and danger, an intensely sexual intelligence that plays off her patrician beauty. In her care, Melinda is part comic, part tragic, all magic. --By Richard Corliss
Instead, U.S. "overconsumption" saved the day, providing demand for the world's goods and keeping emerging economies from imploding due to their own domestic consumption collapse, high debt, and excess production capacity. Our consumption was fueled first by a strong domestic stock market, and when that gave way, by falling interest rates and ample liquidity supplied by the Fed. Still, we suffered a brutal bear market and a recession before things began to improve in early...