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...does not require a social movement to create social change.” The nation recognized Park’s contribution to society in 1996 when she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an award to outstanding civilians, and in 1999 when she received the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Her hometown of Detroit, Mich. also named a street in her honor. “I think she’ll be remembered in many ways, perhaps most profoundly as an ordinary citizen who helped the nation take an extraordinary step to greater justice...
Remele dabbled in costume design in high school, and has assisted with costumes for a few shows while at Harvard. He is also known for making fanciful creations for costume parties: "like, personal use, for individual friends." Whitman says that he made her a gold lamé gown for the Bee-54 party. It was through these dresses that he first won notoriety as a designer within the Harvard social scene. The women for whom he designs are extremely important to his vision. As he says, "a dress is always going to look better on a body than...
...their having a good time this weekend.The heavyweight varsity four—Harvard’s strongest entry in the regatta—carried their boat down to the Newell Boathouse dock wearing full pirate costumes, replete with eye patches for each of the oarsmen, gold hoop earrings, and black and red bandannas. “It’s Head of the Charles—it’s a lot of fun,” said heavyweight varsity two-seat Andrew Boston. “I warmed up in the [eye] patch, but it started making me dizzy...
...tall stores should brace themselves for some wealthy new customers with an urgent need for sport coats. When the NBA's new dress code goes into effect Nov. 1, Philadelphia 76ers guard ALLEN IVERSON is one player who will have to retire his throwback jerseys, do-rags and chunky gold chains to comply with the new "business casual" rule for games and league events. To tackle a perception problem, NBA commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That's unfair when you take that away...
Perhaps the best yardstick to assess the outlook for the later years is the defined-benefit pension, long the gold standard for retirement because it guarantees a fixed income for life. The number of such plans offered by corporations has plunged from 112,200 in 1985 to 29,700 today. Since 1985, the number of active workers covered in the private sector declined from 22 million to 17 million. They are the last members of what once promised to be the U.S.'s golden retirement era, and they are fast disappearing. From 2001 to 2004, nearly 200 corporations...