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...options abound for shoe shoppers. Last month Gap Inc. launched Piperlime, an online footwear retailer with more than 100 brands, free shipping and tips from guest editors like stylist Rachel Zoe. Another new venture, té casan, in New York City's SoHo, sells the work of seven up-and-coming designers. And at Scholl, Diego Dolcini has transformed the classic Toebar into a sexy stiletto, left...
...brand of the moment, (RED), is also the most socially conscious. Created by Bono and Bobby Shriver to benefit the Global Fund in the fight against AIDS, the campaign includes companies like Gap, Apple, American Express, Giorgio Armani, Motorola and Converse, which were enlisted to raise money by selling their own (Product) RED lines and donating portions of their profits...
...characters of “Prodigal Summer” cannot escape the fact that, in some indefinable way, humans are not the same as other species. Kingsolver reveals that important things reside in the gap between what is human and what is wild: love, kinship, pride. Throughout the novel, each character confronts this gap, some with more success than others...
Almost a year after the president of the Cambridge chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ achievement benchmarks to an “apartheid educational system,” the benchmarks system has been revised and achievement gaps between minority and white students have narrowed, according to a district report released at a school committee meeting last night. The state now uses the Composite Performance Index (CPI), which measures, on a 100-point scale, how close the district has come to attaining proficiency for all students. When...
...University of Limerick booth, Nidhi Kapur, a middle-class mother from Delhi, sat looking over courses for her 17-year-old son Kartavya. The gap between India's top schools and the next rank of universities is huge, she explained. For a B- or C-grade student like her son, "you still want a good, solid, branded university, but the options are limited in India," despite the fact that "every family would spend anything it can for education. We're happy to give up comfortable living if it means our children will go to a good school...