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BARE MIDRIFFS Teen pop lark Christina Aguilera may not be a popular girl among Waterbury, Conn., school officials, who have demanded students keep their navels to themselves
...seats splotched with mildew, a three-judge panel convicted the couple on charges of embezzling, destruction of evidence and tax evasion. They were sentenced to serve seven years and pay fines of more than $500,000, a sum the Danes say they don't have. How did a lark turn into a legal quagmire? Blame a combination of naivety, inept legal advice and a complex ownership battle over a sapphire mine in a backwater capital where Western businesses remain a novelty, payoffs are routine and regulations nonexistent...
...Instead, we're stuck making excuses to our co-workers, most of who have taken to giggling uncontrollably whenever the topic of our Beltway job search comes up. We were never serious, we say (especially to our bosses). We thought it would just be a lark, we say, and we laugh. But behind the laughter, we, for perhaps the first time, truly know pain...
...manufactured anymore." Styles range from fedoras to cloches and are made for men and women. Although custom-made, most hats are under $200 and made with quality fabrics and timeless style. Feinman studied English at Vassar College, then spent almost 20 years in corporate jobs. On a lark she registered in a millinery class at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and 10 years later she had a career doing what she always loved best - working with her hands. Her designs reflect her cross-section of customers, from uptown matrons to Japanese tourists, and she asserts, "There really is no substitute...
...fated trip to Europe was not a lark, but the timing was a failure," Mayer says. "That was when the staff at Eliot-Kirkland needed us the most...