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From The Roaring Twenties, when flappers danced the night away in basement speakeasies, to the 1960s, when Tina Turner kicked up her heels in mod minidresses, fringe has been a fashion mainstay. For spring 2009, designers really got into the swing of things, finishing off everything from evening gowns at Jil Sander to peep-toe suede boots at Christian Louboutin and sexy cocktail dresses at Alberta Ferretti with a swish of fringe. Forget about the Western connotations for a minute, because even when it comes to lamps and costume jewelry, this season's fringe is strictly boudoir...
...part of an accelerated dual degree program, the sophomore attends both Harvard and the New England Conservatory (NEC). He plans to earn both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Music in five years. In between classes, papers, and problem sets are lessons, concerts, and—the mainstay of any serious musician—hours upon hours of daily practice...
...With more and more people communicating over cell phones and the Internet, chatter promises to remain the mainstay of spying. Wars are messier than ever, the world's ungoverned spaces are growing, and there are more and more nonstate actors, all of which makes the old-fashioned on-the-ground intelligence methods less and less relevant. The days of the CIA devoting 60% of its time trying to recruit a mole to steal the secret minutes from the Soviet Politburo are long gone...
...situation, to be widely considered a nation's most popular politician yet simultaneously barred from ever holding public office again. But that's the situation facing Pakistani opposition leader and long-time political mainstay Nawaz Sharif after a Feb. 25 decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court. The ruling declared both Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, ineligible to hold office, ostensibly because of Sharif's criminal convictions after he was tossed from office in a 1999 coup by Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
...also a professor of constitutional law, praised Tribe’s work yesterday, saying that his contribution to the field made it only fitting that a Law School professorship bear his name. “It is obviously a profound tribute to Professor Tribe who has been an absolute mainstay of the constitutional law curriculum,” Fallon said. “He’s a scholar who has been the inspiration for a number of faculty over the years.” —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...