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...blue looks nice with your olive skin," Remele tells Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06. Expertly, he hushes the girls’ complaints (the most prevalent being "I have no boobs!"). He knows just how to deflect perfunctory wails about flat chests or thick waists, or to suggest that a petite girl wear a dress at tea length. One of his admitted entrepreneurial advantages is that many of the customers are his friends. "Since many of the girls are in the same social circle and go to the same parties," he reasons...
Throughout the trunk show, he refers to specific girls whose personal style seems to exert an influence. Holding up a shirt: "[sizes] 2-10, flat-to-boob, everyone has looked great in it. Hobbs [Ashley R. Hobbs ’06] was wearing it with jeans earlier." Of a rack of suits: "Alexa [L.M. Von Tobel ’06] got a pantsuit and a skirt suit for recruiting." Each mention of one of their friends piques the girls’ excitement, and they grab more from the racks. "Because of your blockmates, there are, like, 70 pieces lying...
...makes me feel good every time I come in here," says Dan Rood, 41, a divorced insurance salesman in Orlando, Fla., as he surveys the vast, room-size closet he created two years ago. The 21-ft. by 10-ft. space is heavy with rich wood; a flat-screen TV is tucked behind a two-way mirror; there's a bar for entertaining and, of course, counters, as well as cabinets with room to display 39 pairs of shoes. "I have more shoes than the average girl," Rood admits. Entering the closet, he adds, "starts the day out right...
...picked it up and we weren’t ready for it.”Weiss, however, offered another explanation.“We wanted them to serve aggressively,” she said, “so maybe they were serving [too] aggressively.”Harvard looked flat to begin the fourth game, losing its first seven points, but came back to tie the game at 19-19. However, it lost 10 and the final 13 points of the game, and could not stop a Columbia rally in the fifth to drop its sixth straight match...
...whiz through the center of this medieval city, but private cars are conspicuously absent. That's because for the past 20 years, this university town nestled in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany has reduced the use of cars by laying down a lattice of bike paths, introducing a flat-rate fare for all public transport, and expanding bus and tram lines. Commuters from the suburbs can easily catch a bus, tram or bike from the central train station, so more and more of them leave their cars at home. The result: between 1982 and 1999, just over a quarter...