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...place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that Wintour was even seen to remove her signature sunglasses. Indeed, the band is now penciled in to play a Vogue-sponsored benefit at the Met later this year...
...describes life as it existed in 1914, when a man in London could travel the world freely, invest wherever he wanted, and "could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep." Not only that, Keynes' Londoner "regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement." It was not to be. World War I brought the modern world's first great era of globalization to a jarring halt...
...Because Japanese electronics giants Sharp, Hitachi and Kyocera dominate the relatively small global market for solar cells ($6.5 billion in 2004), you'd expect that sales growth for smaller players might be hard to achieve. But industry executives say their prospects are bright, because of an opportunity that is opening up in the U.S. In January, the California legislature passed a law that earmarks $3 billion to subsidize solar-panel purchases by homeowners over the next 10 years. The goal is to add 3,000 megawatts of solar energy to the state's power grid, which is more than...
...yard Individual Medley and her signature event, the butterfly.Bassi had competed in the NCAAs before, finishing 18th in the 200-yard butterfly her freshman year.“It doesn’t get easier,” Bassi said. “You know what to expect, but it’s still hard to mentally prepare for such a meet.”Bassi didn’t swim in the 400-yard individual medley because she wanted to rest for the butterfly. In the finals of that event she registered a time of 1:59.29 and finished...
...decisions we make—whether to print the name of a student arrested on drug charges, use an anonymous source, or to maintain a strict wall between our news reporting and opinion pages. And it will ensure that we operate with the transparency and accountability that we expect of the people and institutions we cover...