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...lzer doesn't collaborate with famous-name designers like Westwood, and some see the lack of a star like John Galliano or Marc Jacobs as a disadvantage because the brand may seem amorphous and harder for a consumer to pin down. On the plus side, shareholders need not fret about atrophying taste or succession. While the company name dates back to the 1920s, the foundations for today's business were put in place at the end of the '60s, when brothers Uwe and Jochen Holy started to manufacture menswear under their grandfather's name. By 1985, Hugo Boss was listed...
Banks writes space opera on the grand scale: he measures time in eons, space in light-years, tragedies in gigadeaths. His human players strut and fret on that vast stage, struggling to retain a sense of purpose. "Welcome to the future," thinks Djan Seriy bitterly. "All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness." She could just as well have said, "Welcome to the present...
...Clinton supporters should not fret: bilingualism does not correlate with electability. The most fluent Spanish speaker of all the major modern presidential nominees was Michael Dukakis, and there's no misunderstanding what the American electorate had to say about...
While real humor could provide a welcome bromide for our suddenly acute case of environmental awareness, Cullen's essay only got my blood boiling. She says green consciousness "forces Americans to add environmentalism to their already endless checklist of things to fret about." She worries that the effects of her family's habits are the "Sasquatch of carbon footprints." It's so easy to make a difference every time we shop for cars, food or lightbulbs. I have a prescription for Cullen's eco-anxiety: Stop poking fun at people taking action and just get with the program. Susie Almgren...
...fret about many problems which, in cold, statistical terms, are quite unlikely ever to occur. The actual likelihood of dying from smoking, not wearing seatbelts or sunscreen, eating preservatives or biking without a helmet is relatively low. Our parents' generation, after all, (mostly) survived the clutches of these and many other perils. But while we generally heed the warnings about cigarettes, seatbelts and sunscreen, we go on having CT scans without putting up the slightest fuss. CT is a controllable risk. Doctors can practice medicine very well, most of the time, without CT scans. We need to avoid them when...