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...just think people buy too many clothes, whether they love fashion or whether they just want 12 T shirts, all different colors, and 12 pairs of jeans all the same. People look a mess because they're buying too many clothes; they're not thinking. If you do buy something new, if you've got the money to afford it, then buy a beautiful piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Vivienne Westwood | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...could be convinced to vote against the resolution. "If we can't get transparency for taxpayers on this, it's going to be difficult to get my vote," said McCaskill, one of Obama's top supporters in the Senate. (See the winners and losers of the Wall Street mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Urges Congress Not to Block the Bailout | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Ninth Ward partly to help her 77-year-old mother repair the family home. Over three years after Katrina, their home remains unfinished. They avoid traveling to the downtown Wal-Mart for groceries, they say, mainly because it's often overcrowded and lacks basic products. "It's a horrible mess," Jones said on a recent Sunday morning, standing outside her family's church in the Lower Ninth Ward. She travels across the Mississippi River into neighboring Jefferson Parish for groceries. "We bring our tax dollars into other parishes, which is horrible. We shouldn't have to live like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Waiting for the Recession in New Orleans | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...taken, I get calls daily from those who have lost their financial lifeline due to this mess. This wasn't a slow-fade-to-ruin crime, but a flip-the-switch-to-poverty crime, and many are now in an adrenal-driven shock stage of having no money - at all - in the bank. The ruin is especially tragic among retirees hit by this pre-holiday bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madoff's Victims: Finding Meaning in the Devastation | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...Doctrine impulses (not to mention the Mafia that was overrunning Cuba then) could be thwarted. People buy Che Guevara T shirts for more than just the lefty chic. The Miami exiles (many of whom backed Fidel Castro before he went communist) deserve their props too, despite the Elian Gonzalez mess. Most were not corrupt oligarchs and gusanos (worms, as Fidel Castro called them) but industrious working- or middle-class men and women who helped build modern Miami. In December, the Miami Herald unveiled an online database that gives the exiles an Ellis Island-style history of their arrivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, Will the Cold War End? | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

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