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...look like Swinton, with alabaster face and red hair, was a breakthrough. Ordinary duffel coats were made pretty with the addition of flowing ribbons. Denim vests and jackets boasted puffy, pleated hems. Silk shirtdresses had overlapping collars. It was a collection as easy to wear as anything at the Gap, but with flourishes that made it very Viktor & Rolf. "Before, they always had the concept first, now they're focusing on garments first, concept second, and sales are starting to move again," says Pene. The first part of the collection shown last week was more of the daywear-with...
...Learn the fine art of compromise. Schwarzenegger did not pick an easy time to take office. The state government handled its $38 billion deficit in the fiscal 2004 budget largely with loans and fiscal shell games. Almost 60% of the budget gap was closed with borrowing, accounting changes and other one time fixes, according to the California Budget Project. Schwarzenegger needs to deliver a budget proposal for fiscal ?05 to the legislature by January 10th and it has to close an $8 billion hole shifted from the last go around. Some analysts are predicting the deficit will be closer...
...Schwarzenegger has made his job more difficult by making three popular pledges: he?ll repeal the recent increase of the car tax, he won?t raise taxes and he won?t cut education spending. The car tax repeal alone will widen the budget gap by $4 billion. But Arnold shrewdly avoided revealing any other details of his plan to fix the budget, arguing he first needs to audit the entire government. While that wasn?t fair to voters - and in exit polls two-thirds griped that he hadn?t given them enough information - they voted for him anyway...
Walker is the author of a study published this week in Nature, which argues that rote memorization occurs most efficiently when there is a gap between the initial attempt to learn and sleep...
...found a lot of the literary nourishment I came here craving. I’ve learned that the two-line gap toward the end of Joyce’s “the Dead” leaves open the possibility of sex between the two main characters (so the Harvard English department isn’t the only sex-obsessed one out there, shocking as it may seem). I’ve gone home to re-read Yeat’s “September, 1913” poem after learning in history class about the brutal crushing...