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Although the bespoke service (the term comes from the English tradition of setting aside a client's fabric, which was said to be "spoken for") is limited to Rome and Milan and accounts for only 3% of Brioni's sales, Angeloni says it's what differentiates the brand from others. Today most of the company's business is in off-the-rack suits, priced from $2,600 and available in the same quality fabrics and with the same buttons used for the bespoke versions. A quarter of the company's 1,600 employees worldwide are trained tailors. About...
...British occupation. Sunni and Shi'ite tribes cooperated in rebelling against British rule, and were only put down with a bombing campaign in 1920 that killed 9,000. In 1941 mobs targeted Iraq's small Jewish population; Jews had been a valued part of the Iraqi national fabric but were accused, unfairly, of being pro-colonial. After World War II, much of the violence in Iraq was fueled by issues of class. In 1948 slum dwellers and railway and oil workers revolted against a government treaty with Britain. In 1959, Arab nationalists assassinated Communist Party members, while mobs in Mosul...
...rethinking of city schools goes beyond that. The state is examining whether schools in every neighborhood of New Orleans should be brought back as part of what's called a community nexus. Each school would be part of a fabric of facilities that could include a library, recreation center, health clinic, performing-arts space and even a community catering kitchen. All of them would serve students and other people from the surrounding neighborhood. That would avoid the duplication of costs when cities build, say, public libraries and school libraries. Other cities, including Chicago and Providence, R.I., have adopted the approach...
Schooling accounts for the Latins' superb technique; their culture supplies the rest. A love of movement, says A.B.T. artistic director Kevin McKenzie, "is part of the daily fabric of their lives." Adds A.B.T.'s Julio Bocca, who is from Argentina: "We improvise a lot. Our kind of living is very fresh and spontaneous." And Latins are never shy about injecting a little drama. "We try harder to be actresses in the roles we dance," says Mary Carmen Catoya, a Venezuelan with Miami City Ballet, "to seduce the audience a little more, make our eyes talk a little more...
...reveals not just your misplaced priorities, but also your total lack of understanding of the investment management business. Just yesterday, you published an article in which Dave Swenson, Yale’s chief investment officer, roundly criticized Harvard’s compensation plan as excessive and dangerous to the fabric of the University (“Yale’s Chief Investor Says HMC Overpays,” news, Feb. 9). Yale’s endowment has significantly outperformed Harvard’s; according to your own statistics, Yale’s fund has outperformed Harvard?...