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...equally sharp and saucy brand of ironic fashion sense. It is much harder to exemplify irony when you don’t have a mansion left to you for no reason, but these girls do admirably under the circumstances. Often they wear ironically short mini-skirts and cable-knit sweaters in a pastel color. Or, if there’s a theme party, they all ironically wear a bra and a man’s oxford—no matter what the theme is! Ah! How lovely!All of this is done while ironically swigging beer and looking...
...Prada. After several seasons of staying on the groomed slopes, she likes to veer off piste. This season Prada showed a collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversize nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes had fur on the platform heels. The designer said the collection had been inspired by street fashion, Japanese...
...research university" with a tenured faculty whose members were scholars first and teachers second. Research became the university's core purpose, and the faculty is the most powerful constituency, the one Summers ran afoul of. Senior scholars live inside what one might call coalitions of the brilliant--tight-knit, self-regulating global communities within each discipline, oriented around the dream of producing pathbreaking scholarly work...
...Prada. After several seasons of staying on the groomed slopes, she likes to veer off piste. This season, Prada showed a collection as unexpected as it was aggressive. Her models came storming down the winding runway in oversized nylon anoraks and long, slouched-on black coats worn over heavy knit dresses and chunky platform shoes. There were patches of fur down the backs of wool coats, done in such an offhand way as to almost look primitive. Even some of the shoes had fur on the platform heels. The designer said the collection had been inspired by street fashion, Japanese...
...cities have it quite as bad as Baltimore. The city's highest-crime areas tend to be close-knit, insular communities where everybody knows everybody else's business, including who's talking to the police. Mix in a high-stakes drug trade and a flood of handguns, and you have a recipe for a pitiless war on witnesses. Baltimore's problems first made national news in 2002 when a family of seven were killed in an arson attack after they helped police identify drug dealers in their neighborhood...