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...Last year the group joined the local government and the street's two principal landlords in an alliance to keep the tailoring industry intact. "You tell me the name of a street more famous than Savile Row in Britain," Boateng says. "It has so much tradition and history. It needs to be protected." Property consultant Mike Jones agrees that the tailors give Savile Row a unique and valuable cachet: "It would be silly not to recognize that...
...national-championship football teams, should inspire not only a sense of pride but a sense of duty. We have succeeded to a rich inheritance and thus are responsible for a sacred trust, for the work assembled over generations—one that we should hope to transmit not only intact but even more abundant to the next era of Harvard students...
...scoring offense in the league the ‘D’ allowed just 109 yards of total offense—66 rushing, 43 passing—and zero offensive scores. Harvard’s two-plus-year streak of holding individual rushers under the century mark remains intact.“We really just had no answers offensively,” said Bulldogs head coach Jack Siedlecki. “They seemed to be in our backfield every play, whether we were running or throwing. Obviously it got us completely out of our style of play...
Thompson's new plan reduces staffing (23,000 before the new round of cuts) and budgets but leaves the range of activities pretty much intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, standout content" and the need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which, as Fox Television has proved, tend to gather at the bottom of the taste pyramid. Consider the huge popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control...
...circumcision partisans say a foreskin causes suffering too. Intact boys are at greater risk for kidney infection as infants, and for penile cancer, foreskin disorders, HIV and other STDs like human papillomavirus later in life, leaving female partners more likely to get cervical cancer. The cost of prevention, proponents say, is the brief trauma of the procedure. Says Edgar Schoen, former pediatrics chief at Kaiser Permanente, who led the 1989 American Association of Pediatrics circumcision task force, which came out neutral on cutting: "A newborn baby is programmed for stress and recovers quickly." Opponents, on the other hand, say foreskin...