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...conscious clothing chains at the lower end of the market have partly usurped spots once occupied by moderately priced lines trading more on quality than trendiness. And the upstarts' sprightly styles, often pinched from designer labels, are forcing the big brands to rely on craftsmanship and extravagant materials to grab their customers' attention. "What's driving our business is the 'Bang! I'll have it' impulse that only occurs if something is special," says Fendi CEO Michael Burke. "The Fendi customer doesn't need us for simple." Hence the house's new evening bag, a reimagining of last season...
Inside, people check out the art, chitchat with the artists, and grab a cup of wine and some pretzels and Twizzlers. It is as much a family affair as a night on the town; children under 12, strangely abundant, are everywhere underfoot...
...This is kind of unusual,” said Pasquarello. “We usually don’t have a level of violence in a street robbery. It is stranger than most cases. [They] usually grab a pocketbook and run—usually there is no assault...
Good luck if you can’t speak Portuguese, because bakeries don’t get more local than Café Casal. Grab a copy of O Jornal, one of the free bilingual newspapers and request a slice of cinnamon cake or a custard tart (pastel de nata) at the counter. While the Dunkin’ Donuts-like atmosphere of this bakery is depressingly modern, the history of the tarts goes all the way back to the Middle Ages. When noble families sent their daughters off to the Church to become nuns, they paid their dowries in chickens...
...Security, the key focus of the President?s second-term domestic agenda, the White House has problems of its own. On the campaign trail, President Bush avoided getting specific on how he?d change Social Security, talking only in vague terms about an "ownership society" and his determination to grab hold of the "third rail of American politics." Showing voters a detailed plan on Social Security could have sent Bush back to Crawford, Texas permanently. But having avoided airing specific proposals during the election, whatever plans he now puts forward don?t carry much of a public mandate, and Republican...