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...November, newspapers and television footage were filled with images of Afghan women dancing in the streets, going back to school, and most of all, throwing off their burqas—which implied that women were finally ready to show their faces in public and stop wearing the all-encompassing garment. Their freedom symbolized the freedom of all Afghan citizens from Taliban rule. Unfortunately, these pictures do not represent the realities that most Afghans face today...
Ziggy Whitman ’04 bought a garment rack for one dollar that went for $40 retail. “It is exactly what I came looking for,” Whitman said...
Brooks Brothers and Prada are enlisting high-tech partners to help improve their customer service. At the Prada Epicenter in New York City's trendy SoHo district, sales reps use handheld devices to scan garment tags that are fitted with Texas Instruments' R.F.I.D. (radio frequency identification) technology--the kind embedded in the electronic passes commuters use to zip past tollbooths. A tag scan at Prada accesses details about fabric, size, availability--even a film clip of the garment worn by a model--all of which are displayed on one of the store's ubiquitous flat plasma video screens...
...Rights Alert reports that "a collection of photographs that show dozens of celebrities all wearing the same cardigan sweater - and expressing their very different personalities by the way they inhabit the garment - was a novelty buy by Tom Dunne for his St. Martin's Press imprint. It's the work of photographer Stephen Mosher, who spent six years collecting the hundreds of celebrity pictures from which those in the book will be chosen, including Alec Baldwin, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Dominick Dunne, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Harris, Kathleen Turner, Angela Bassett, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and many...
...reporting unattended packages, are now compulsively scanning even those in the hands of any person who might be Palestinian. We have heard of more than one case in which a young dark individual in a heavy coat was tackled under the assumption that he was wearing explosives under his garment. (In at least two cases, the suspicion was confirmed, and many lives were saved...