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Inspired by the experience, the three friends - who shop at Walmart regularly, sometimes while wearing ugly clothes - went home and created the website. They asked their friends to submit photos and naively assumed that no one outside their social circle would ever see it. "Honestly," says Andrew, "we didn't think we'd even update it very often...
From job security to home foreclosures, there are plenty of things for people to worry about during a recession. But a growing body of research suggests that there's one negative outcome that is actually less likely during an economic downturn: death...
...something Englishwoman who has lived in Paris, I thought your article missed a vital point. I had never thought twice about wearing a low-cut top in my home town, but when I moved to Paris I began to copy the demure style of Parisiennes. To ascribe this shift simply to changing attitudes in women ignores the important role that men play in forming a woman's own body image. Going about my daily life in Paris, I felt that men saw me as a sexual object more than I was used to and I responded by dressing more demurely...
These are prolific, topical times for Pakistani fiction. Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, published in early 2007, was the first of the recent bloom. Hamid's unnerving novella, about a Princeton grad who grows a beard, quits his fancy New York consulting job and returns home to Lahore after 9/11, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Mohammed Hanif's 2008 novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes, based on the 1988 plane crash that killed General Zia ul-Haq, was a finalist for the Guardian first-book award. And Daniyal Mueenuddin's superb In Other Rooms, Other Wonders...
...reflect the broader mandate. McArdle said that moving CEP did not detract from LSC’s core mission of poverty law. “Obviously economic development is important to the community, but it’s a different mission than, say, helping someone stay in their home,” McArdle said.Dealy, the assistant dean, said that the decision to move the four clinics was also driven in part by a desire to enhance Law School curricula and strengthen the connection between clinical classroom work and fieldwork. McArdle also said that locating the clinics in Cambridge...