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...alarmists here in the States - who's got the time, with prices so low? - but we do tend to rally around a good crisis. The Greatest Generation had WWII, the boomers got to hem and haw on Vietnam/Watergate and permanently cripple our national self-esteem. We get the business cycle, the global economy, and a chance to answer the question of the century: whether capitalism can indeed save the world, or just fill it with smog and fast-food restaurants...
...never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what I will say if I meet him," she says, pulling the hem of her pink leather skirt down her thighs. "But I think I will say: 'Hello, I am your daughter. Welcome again to Angeles. We call it the city of Angels...
...girls. Her wool jersey knits make a classy transition from the office to after work; and stretch velvets work for every day as well as parties and nightclubbing. An elegant emerald green glitter tank dress ($109) and its matching self-tie jacket with lettuce edging along the sleeves and hem ($79) can be coordinated with an emerald green velvet ensemble in girls' sizes from infant ($25/dress and $25/jacket) to 10-year-old ($65/dress and $39/jacket). The fabrication used in the girls' line is the same as the women's line, making stylish possibilities for distinctive "mother-daughter" ensembles. James' girls...
...real person," he said, nodding his head, impressed. And there it was, one of the strangest things about the trail: Repeatedly the smallest thing - a nod, a hello, a handshake - blows people away. For all my time on the trail, I still don't understand the "I touched the hem of his garment!" reaction people have to politicians...
...management consultant Bill Dunk: "The increasing raft of books in the pop-psychology area attests to how extraordinarily stressful business has become in the Internet age." One of the basic tenets of Cheese is that people think too much, unlike their rodent cousins, who act instinctively, without resentment. While Hem and Haw rationalize their loss of cheese, the mice go in search of new cheese, sending out resumes, so to speak, the moment they get their pink slips...