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Before it lands on your back, a cashmere sweater has completed an epic transformation. First, hair must be gathered during the molting season from the inner coat of special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production--the best are in Italy and Scotland--where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...that over the past month they were getting better leads. ?In the last three to four weeks, our forces have been able to capture people we?ve been hunting all summer,? said Lieut. Colonel Steven Russell, the commander of the 4th?s 1-22 Infantry Regiment. ?This was the inner circle, and we were taking pieces out of it.? Last week they could tell they were getting closer and closer. ?Four days ago, an individual was captured that led to the capture of the man we believed was Saddam?s right-hand man,? Russell told Time. ?He was captured...
...real world at work in this 2001 Spanish semi-documentary with English subtitles that follows the residents displaced when the upper class’s need for space and construction expands and collides with the inner-city. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street...
Algren may be in Japan, but he quickly develops a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Under the influence of his dignified captors, Algren learns Japanese, rediscovers his inner goodness, and, in the course of one arduous morning, overcomes his alcoholism. Twelve steps aren’t necessary in this Land of the Rising Sun: from the patronizing perspective of The Last Samurai, all an American expatriate needs is a kimono and a hearty bowl of rice to be spiritually cleansed and freed from Western corruption...
...femininity (he wouldn’t specify, but mentioned being a homemaker), and openness to children. “Gladden is a somewhat reserved person,” says Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, “not a firebrand. But he has inner resources...