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...fire-sale prices blindsided smaller boutiques and designer-owned stores, and broke an unspoken cardinal rule with fashion houses not to deep discount luxury names. (See the Style & Design: Global Luxury Survey...
...electrical fire between Downtown Crossing and South Station crippled service on the Red Line during rush hour yesterday, according to the MBTA's Twitter Web site, forcing hundreds of passengers to evacuate the subway. Service wasn't restored until at least 9 p.m., and the MBTA's substitute shuttle buses caused delays and traffic jams in Harvard Square...
...about the same time, a fire broke out on the Orange Line—possibly prompted by a passenger throwing debris onto the third rail near the Chinatown stop—and stopped service on that route as well...
...says he spends much of his time today volunteering to help Iraq war veterans apply for their own benefits. "One of my jobs at Camp Garcia was to gauge the wind direction during those tests," he says. "If the wind ever shifted toward the population, I'd shout, 'Cease fire!' " See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...catch. But Taiji fishermen aren't the only ones bowing to international pressure. Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) chairman Tom Yoda announced on Sept. 16 that the festival will screen the film, after previously rejecting it for TIFF's official selection (the festival starts next month). Having come under fire for initially rejecting the documentary, Yoda said the reasons for rejecting or accepting films aren't generally discussed, as the festival receives more than 700 entries each year. No film festival has a moral obligation to accept a film, but TIFF's slogan of "Action! For Earth" raised more than...