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...swan the others paddle behind like cygnets. All three women are young and down to earth. And everybody wants a piece of them, or in Philo's case, as many pieces--bags, skirts, dresses--as they can afford. But unlike Portman or Jones, Philo is not yet a household name. She is the 31-year-old creative director of the so-venerable-it's-fresh-again French label Chloé. And since 2001, when she took the line over from her former boss, Stella McCartney, her breezy, romantic look has become the uniform of fashion-obsessed celebrities and front-row types...
...dirt-poor beginnings. His father battled to keep his family afloat in Medellín - now Colombia's second-largest city (and a center of the country's cocaine business), but an isolated backwater during the 1930s and 1940s - by riding mules over rutted mountain tracks and peddling household items to villagers. He died when Botero was just 4, leaving his widow and three sons in such dire poverty that "it was very hard for my mother to feed us," Botero says. At 15, young Botero began selling paintings of local matadors in a store near Medell...
Given that history and the star power arrayed on the other side of the ball, it’s little surprise that the Crimson’s latest crop of defenders never became household names ’round Harvard Yard or received their fair share of the credit for the Crimson’s perfect season. A school-record 339 points scored will have that effect, too. But ultimately it was Harvard’s proficiency at keeping its opponents out of the end zone rather than its own skill finding a way in that prevented the Crimson?...
...recent advances, Harvard’s undergraduate body remains wealthy on the whole. According to Fitzsimmons, more than 80 percent of the College’s students come from the top half of the national income distribution, and among students receiving financial aid, the average household income is well over...
...encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies on gas and household commodities. But most significant, they began loosening control over the lifestyle choices of the 48 million Iranians under the age of 30, who make up more than two-thirds of the population...