Word: exists
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...revival or exhumation of the Rat Pack series has reason to exist (big if), it's to prove that Hollywood still knows how to parade the old careless glamour. That's the only reason an audience has to see the Ocean movies. So the biggest surprise and disappointment about the new one is not that it's kind of a corpse, but that the stars aren't made to look beautiful, sexy, starrish...
...cheap compared with most everything else Barneys has to offer--prices range from around $24 for a strappy tank top to $300 for a leather jacket--but these days, says Robert Burke, a retail consultant in New York, fashion retail's territorial lines are blurring. "Traditional categories no longer exist," he says. "There's almost a reverse snobbery today: people really like the idea of mixing a variety of price points." In other words, few fashionistas think twice about pairing a $1,000 jacket with a $20 T shirt anymore. Launching Moss's opening collection in Barneys, Burke says, makes...
...always able to calm down clashes between Albanians and the few Serbian enclaves still remaining in Kosovo. Though Kosovo will never again be a part of Serbia, the U.S. might be too hasty seeking to have both peoples integrated into the EU before they have learned how to co-exist. Helping develop functioning - and inevitably cooperative - economies in Serbia and Kosovo might prove a necessary prerequisite. It takes time. In this respect, the likelihood of a desperate Russian veto may be a blessing in disguise for the region...
...During a lawn party Laura and Carlos arrange for handicapped children, Simon disappears. After six months' searching, he is presumed kidnapped or dead - by everyone but Laura. She has begun to feel palpitations in the old house, hints of other, unquiet spirits. They may mean her harm, if they exist. But Laura, seized by sorrow, believes the voices are speaking to her - that they may have risen from her past to help her find Simon...
...President of BMF, wrote a widely forwarded email in which he characterized students who had complained about the noise as having dispositions "motivated by racist attitudes." This assertion is troubling. Just as it would be inappropriate to dismiss the idea that strands of racism could exist at Harvard, it is equally offensive to presume that what happened at the Quad indicates maliciousness toward black students...