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...pair of jeans lurking in most everyone's closet. But for the trendy, getting the right brand, color, length and width is a science that requires precision. For the last few years, the mode in denim was dark - so dark that fashionistas were having their jeans dry-cleaned, lest they fade. But no more. Distressed denim is now the stylish option. So get out your oldest pair, chop off the hems, pin up the holes and throw on a thousand-dollar coat. Violà! The newest in street chic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...know, that's not entirely fair to Connecticut females. In fact, it's a dreadful, horrible, recklessly awful generalization. So let me immediately backtrack, backpedal and otherwise retract what I just said, lest the lovely, gorgeous, impeccably attractive ladies of my home state rise up, march to Cambridge, seize every copy of this fine paper and put it to the torch in protest...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Stereotyping Made Easy | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...always possible, so over time, Donna has come up with other answers. When she opens the refrigerator door, rubber-soled shoes are a must. If a light bulb blows, she will tolerate the dark until someone else changes it for her. Clothes shopping is done only when necessary, lest static on garments send her running from the store. And swimming at night is absolutely out of the question, lest underwater lights electrocute her. When there's a possibility that lightning may strike, she simply shuts off everything in her house and sits alone in a darkened room until the danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...that they must leave. The 2 million refugees in Syria and Jordan are seen as less of a problem because they have been granted more employment rights, citizenship or both. But Lebanon has always been far less hospitable, imposing regulations that prevent refugees from working in some 60 professions, lest they become rooted in the country. The refugees associate Sharon with the massacre, even though it was carried out by Israel-allied Lebanese Christians who had long fought Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Christian fears that the mainly Muslim Palestinians threatened their survival helped spark Lebanon's 1975-90 civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Go Home Again | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...including their representatives on the search committee. Other universities have included students on their search committees without incident and have produced stellar candidates, most recently in Stanford's John L. Hennessy. The Corporation should not view students as barbarians at the gates, to be shunned at all cost lest they corrupt the process...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Harvard Throne | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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