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...Born in Bangkok, he spent 25 years in the Big Apple before returning to his birthplace. "When I first got here, the chaos in the way people dressed was giving me a headache," he says. "So I brought the New York stark sensibility over here." A minimalist, Comme des Garçons?style shirt costs up to $75. A bespoke suit will set you back around $430. IT'S HAPPENED TO BE A CLOSET: Although the word bohemian springs immediately to mind, designer Siriwan Tharananithikul dislikes the adjective that's often used to describe her clothes. "That word doesn...
...could ill afford. Congress forced the states to impose a 55-m.p.h. limit, and a tradition died. Though lower speeds have saved countless lives and millions of barrels of oil, many road runners hate slow-motion driving. I Can't Drive Fifty-Five, a popular song by Sammy Ha-gar, has become the anthem of speeding scofflaws...
There was, however, another factor, one still enmeshed in historical controversy. By the end of July, Japan was reeling. It was likely that a Soviet declaration of war would be the coup de grace. Gar Alperovitz, a historical revisionist whose newly updated Atomic Diplomacy is a harsh critique of American policy, argues that Truman was well aware of this. One of his principal goals during the Big Three meeting in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam in July 1945 was to secure Stalin's pledge to enter the war within a few weeks. When the Soviet dictator agreed, Truman jotted...
...with a visit to Dimitris', one of the oldest barbershops in Athens (sorry ladies, this is a treat for men). There, for a meager $7, you can indulge in a trim-and-a-shave that has shipping titans, politicians and common folk queuing for that timeless "garçon"; look. What next? Be daring. Face west, a slant to the south, and walk ahead. Fear not the toe-nipping traffic that suddenly re-emerges. Or the streets hawkers and immigrants who sometimes clog the rugged roads to Votanikos, the thriving trend-setting part of Athens. Within minutes...
DIED. JUSTIN WILSON, 87, Cajun chef and humorist for public television whose trademark expression was "I gar-on-tee"; in Baton Rouge, La. Bedecked in red suspenders, Wilson, a former safety engineer, studied his mom's cuisine as a boy, wrote five popular cookbooks and was host on such shows as Cookin' Cajun and Louisiana Cookin...