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...Brooks Brothers, with the Golden Fleece as its trademark. By 1865 the brand had already firmly established its place in U.S. history: Abraham Lincoln wore a Brooks Brothers coat to his second Inauguration?and was wearing it again the night he was assassinated. Later, Charles Lindbergh celebrated his famous flight in a Brooks Brothers suit, and Clark Gable frequently placed custom orders. The brand was popular in academic institutions as well, and the polo coat became the uniform at places like Miss Porter's School. On Ivy League campuses, Brooks' preppy innovations like argyle, seersucker and madras?all brought...
...morning of my flight to Gatwick Airport—July 21, 2005—terrorists attempted to bomb the London public transportation system. I wound up never leaving New York, never enrolling in “Development in the International Political Economy,” and I accepted it all as divine, terrifying providence...
...haunted by the memory of the day in 2000 when 30 of his own disgruntled soldiers came to kill him in his office at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in the capital of Suva. The military chief escaped the black-clad invaders and their gunfire, but he lost face as his flight was captured by video cameras. The would-be military assassins were allies of the men who had tried to overthrow the government the same year. During the past six years, Bainimarama has neither forgotten nor forgiven the actions of the rebel soldiers or the leaders of the coup...
...making his typewriter crackle like marbles bouncing across a cement floor, polishing what he wrote, arguing with editors, being a general pain in the ass. The things he did, the things we do - not as brilliantly as the early Woodward and Bernstein, not as well as Johnny in full flight, but just as hungrily, just as passionately. Johnny was a lucky man; his memorial service today served to remind those of us in the tribe how very lucky...
...took three weeks, seven games, and a cross-country flight, but the Harvard women’s basketball team found the win column on Sunday in Berkeley, Calif.“Finally,” co-captain Christiana Lackner said. “That’s the first thing that comes to mind.”The Crimson (1-6) dispatched San Jose State 83-62 to claim its first victory of the season. Harvard fell 96-54 to No. 16 California in its first game of the Contra Costa Times Classic on Saturday.“After yesterday...