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Unlike other designers who create from sketches, Kamali drapes a fabric over her own body to see how it falls. She then begins cutting and sewing with the fabric still on her. It is from this master sample that patterns are made. This curious system may well stem from her teen-age days, when she would stitch herself into tight pants, then extricate herself with a seam ripper...
Amid the outpouring of dry statistics, the rich fabric of an independent culture has begun to emerge, one so affluent that it may well have rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the halcyon years of the archive (c. 2350-2250 B.C.), the metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough...
...years ago, diversity at Harvard meant that there were good athletes, academics, and artists living in the same community. Now diversity has become a catch-word for the University's often-stated commitment to bringing students of all races and economic backgrounds to Cambridge, weaving them into Harvard's fabric and assuring that they consider themselves an integral part of the community...
...ready for deployment until 1983. Meanwhile, the Soviets are steadily deploying the SS-20, and have about 750 warheads-each 15 times or so Hiroshima strength-in place today. In 15 minutes, these weapons could wipe out most of the major military targets and much of the urban fabric of Western Europe...
Perhaps it is fitting that the Galbraithian phrase most permanently woven into the fabric over everyday life is "the conventional wisdom," which he defines as "the beliefs that are at any time assiduously, solemnly and mindlessly traded between the pretentiously wise." Galbraith's radar for the "conventional wisdom" always makes his observations ring with that extra measure of clarity. When he wrote in a recent edition of The New York Review of Books that "Solar energy attracts people with an indifferent commitment to personal hygience and a strong commitment to organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when...