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...Harvard label is just another way to do preppy merchandise," says menswear-fashion expert Robert E. Bryan, author of American Fashion Menswear, a new book on the history of male dressing. "Except that maybe Harvard gives it more authenticity because that's where the real prepsters go." Authenticity was also the holy grail for Bryan Griggs, who designed the line for the Field & Stream brand and says the clothes were inspired by his travels through Wyoming's Grand Tetons...
...With Baghdad and Tehran getting increasingly close, some observers think the raid was an attempt to appease Iran's ayatullahs, who consider MEK members terrorists. "This situation was predictable the day Saddam's regime fell," says Karim Pakzad, a Middle East expert at Paris' Institute of Strategic and International Relations (IRIS). "It's understandable that the Iraqis want to extend their sovereignty to a camp of former militants, whose presence they can no longer stand. But it's also become a humanitarian question: what to do with these people...
Right Man, Right Time By one of those strange Sully Sullenberger collisions of preparation and crisis - the sort that put Depression expert Ben Bernanke in at the Fed at the moment of a flameout of 1930s magnitude - Larry Summers made his reputation as an employment theorist. Summers is the nephew of two Nobel economists and was regarded as the smartest undergrad anyone knew, but as he surveyed his research options 30 years ago, he settled on the then relatively unsexy specialty of labor. The subject tickled his sense of skepticism. "The view that was taking hold at that time...
...those hearings, Srinivasan Keshav, a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and an expert on mobile computing, presented a detailed analysis of all the expenses that carriers incur in handling SMS messages. He showed that the wireless channels contribute about a tenth of a cent to a carrier's cost, that accounting charges might be twice that and that other costs basically round to zero because texting requires so little of a mobile network's infrastructure. Summing up, Keshav found that a text message doesn't cost providers more than 0.3 cent. (Read "When Fingers Do the Flirting...
...Public Policy announced its slate of fall fellows earlier this week—a group of two journalists and two academics who will stay at Harvard to research issues confronting the modern press. The Shorenstein fellowship program, now in its twenty-fourth year, funds a semester-long term for experts in news media. Fellows are selected by a committee of the Shorenstein Center’s senior staff and Kennedy School faculty. This year’s fellows are John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor and an expert on political attack ads; Loen Kelley, a television producer who has worked...