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...Regan said that Halley fills a gap in the kinds of courses the law school offers...
Despite all the glowing economic indicators that point up--stock-market indexes, employment, corporate profits--the income gap continues to widen, and those most often found toward the bottom are women. Even women in jobs that pay solid middle-class wages find themselves in financial trouble and must seek bankruptcy protection when they are overwhelmed by debt following a breakup or a divorce...
...vague cultural phenomenon snapped into sharp focus for me recently at a restaurant opening in Manhattan. The revelers at Dylan were mostly twentysomethings and soooo trendy. They looked like a bunch of Gap models with cell phones pressed to their beautiful little ears. More on point, virtually all of them were chastened day traders. A young partner in the restaurant venture confided that the volatile NASDAQ had all but ruined him, prompting him to--oh no!--start a career...
...every generation has its vice, day trading is it for Generation X. Think of it as financial cocaine--pleasant highs, awful lows, disastrous in the long run. Gen Xers aren't the only ones abusing this drug. Far from it. But to them it's hip. The Gap kids lost tens of thousands each in the market's spring cleaning. But, hey, they're with it. They wear their losses as a badge of cool...
...build-up surrounding the exhibit, it was disappointing to exit the lecture hall and find that it consisted solely of huge blown-up photographs of textiles, nature scenes, sketches and models behind barbed wire wearing Rei's work. The degree of success with which the attempt to bridge the gap between old and new was met could perhaps be reckoned by the quizzical expression on the face of the graying man in the conservative suit examining the exhibition. He stood watching one of two video monitors displaying excerpts from Kawakubo's most recent runway showings, in which the models distinctly...