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...vast photograph of her father's hand?"My father was always very careful about how he touched silk"?Ratti is ensconced in her office in the new headquarters, built in 1999. Like her father, Ratti is a sharp businessperson with a passion for the creative process. She pays frequent visits to clients like John Galliano at Dior and listens to their ideas and vision to glean ideas of her own. "You listen a lot, but you also propose a lot," she says. Depending on the designer Ratti is dealing with, it can go either way. Some, like Dries...
...experienced and critically-acclaimed film director. Green was present at the HFA to screen a number of his films, including the newly released “Snow Angels,” and to answer questions from the audience. Green’s directorial technique is marked by its frequent use of the Southern Gothic style. “Snow Angels,” however, is unique in his corpus. Set in the northern United States, the film is a plot-driven story about adult relationships, rather than the coming-of-age narratives that characterize his other films. While Green wrote...
...What was clerking for Thurgood Marshall like? CRS: It was an adventure. There was frequent drama because there were cases involving abortion, voting rights, the meaning of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history—many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every...
...eight or nine games, but the number dropped to three by his junior season.“That’s not too good for a club that is supposed to be more of a legit team,” says Segal, citing his team’s frequent seven a.m. practices as evidence of their serious attitude towards athletic success. DEVELOPING BODIESThe JV teams that have turned over are also noticing that a significant change in atmosphere comes along with their new titles. Segal says that he found club “a lot less formal...
...temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models suggest that rain could become less frequent overall but more intense when it does fall, leading to a double whammy. Longer and fiercer droughts in some areas will worsen hunger, but severe rainstorms carry an increased risk of water-borne diseases like cholera. "It's not just warming, it's climate change," says Patz. "It's changing...