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...menswear expert, but I keep a close eye on fashion trends, so I know when news percolates in any sector of the business. And I've heard the recent rumblings about new talent in the American menswear market. As our cover model, Tom Ford, points out, there hasn't been a designer or a company that addresses the whole lifestyle of American men since Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren (unless, of course, you count the recent developments of the renowned Zegna family). Well, now there's not only Ford but also a raft of new American menswear designers breaking through?...
...facing a full-blown famine, the shortage appears to be the worst food crisis since the 1990s. Erica Kang, director of the Seoul-based human-rights group Good Friends, says a "few hundred thousand people are in danger or at risk of famine" in North Korea. Marcus Noland, an expert on the North Korean economy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, believes that "hunger deaths are almost surely returning...
...severe flooding delivered another blow to the agriculture sector; by this year, the country's shortfall of grain was the worst since 2001. The regime's leadership "would rather have a proportion of their population starve to death" than pursue reform, says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Pyongyang believes market reform "would risk ideological and cultural infiltration, which is how they see the Soviet system going down...
Twelve Harvard-affiliated individuals made the list, including four current professors: law professor Noah R. Feldman ’92, human rights scholar Samantha Power, international relations expert Meghan L. O’Sullivan, and physicist Lisa Randall...
Economics professor Edward Glaeser, an expert in urban economics, found a potential bright spot in the current crisis. He suggested that the decline in housing prices—a market in which he does not “think we’re close to the bottom”—has made home ownership more affordable...