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Perhaps I'm being too harsh. After all, today's fashion does lean towards conformity. Gap does sound strangely fascist in their ads that chant "everyone in cords." But when I brought the topic up with my friends, they not only agreed with me, they added to my list of complaints. "Look at how they depict women!" my roommate intoned. Indeed, to the dismay of our Harvard rugby team, the Abercrombie girls were ignominiously relegated to the sidelines and depicted as screaming rugby fans, rather than players. In the boxing spread, the girls were shown having their gloves tied...
...good initial quickness, and his patterns are pretty good," said George Lynch, a New York Giants scout at the Columbia game. "He can get some separation and get open, he's got good hands and good upfield lean. He also has good speed for a tight end. If he bulks up, he could be drafted. He has good blocking technique and is willing...
...writer-reporters Michele Orecklin and Jodie Morse are current TIME tutors. Stein, Orecklin and Ratnesar have been working with eighth-grader Jovon Lee since last September. It didn't take long to discover they had a voracious reader on their hands, even if his tastes did tend to lean more toward stories about sports and music than national politics--although long before Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota, Jovon had become an expert on The Body's campaign high jinks. But the most harrowing moments for Joel, Romesh and Michele come when Jovon turns a critical eye toward...
Conventional wisdom is that the lean, mean but powerful U.S. economy owes its strength to the armies of temporary employees that make up a larger and larger percentage of the work force. But this time conventional wisdom is wrong, according to economist Max Lyons of the Employment Policy Foundation, a Washington-based research and education group. Temps make up only between 1% and 2% of the total employed, Lyons argues in a recent study, and most of them do not temp for long; 75% of those who work temporarily do so for no more than a year. Lyons reveals...
Half-truths and evasions are a part of everyday life. We don't, like Jim Carrey, when he's unable to prevaricate in Liar Liar, lean over to our lover and say, "I've had better." Manners are deception by another name. The same is true of politics. We say we want politicians to give us the unvarnished truth, but at the end of the day we really don't want to hear a detailed history of a candidate's bathroom coke snorts any more than, say, Iowans want to hear that subsidizing ethanol is a dubious use of government...