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...incorrect websites are routinely shut down, and the government uses text messages as warnings against public demonstrations and has a history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [Aug. 28]: it was interesting to read about Westerners like Jamal Harwood who have converted to Islam. Western countries offer the freedom to convert. But in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam, with the sacred city of Mecca, it is against...
...pander to an active constituency (here, UMass alums),” Linsky wrote. Gabrieli, who serves on the board of the School of Public Health, has proposed a merit-based award system which uses peer reviews to select the best researchers. He said that California, New York, and New Jersey have similar systems to the one he is proposing. Gabrieli accused his opponents of playing politics with the important issue. “Do you want to get cures for the disease or do you want to score points by saying that you care about UMass...
...were provided with metal eating utensils, including a serrated knife. If a couple of box cutters brought down the World Trade Center nearly five years ago, doesn't someone out there have any sense by now not to provide metal eating utensils to passengers? Paul S. Wax Teaneck, New Jersey...
...dress. D is for Determination. D is for Diane, as in DVF or Diane Von Furstenberg, doyenne of the ubiquitous jersey wrap dress and now also president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. On day three of New York Fashion Week, three major trends have emerged for spring 2007. There's the dress, which, according to designers like DVF and newcomer Thakoon Panichgul, is best worn short and swingy and in some tangy, Day-Glo color like cherry red or peony pink. There is the very short hemline, terrifying for anyone over the age of 30. And there...
...give me the time of day, but you'll see, in a few years he'll be eating out of my hand." Lo and behold, these many years later, DVF has built the empire back up with the same simple concept she launched in 1975 when she introduced her jersey wrap dress for $75. It's a bit more expensive nowadays, but it's as fashionable and ubiquitous as it was thirty years ago. And there in the front row at DVF's show was every major retailer in American fashion...