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...long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies, a 24-year-old entrepreneur, has started a touring company that ferries passengers in and around Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie (four wheels under one umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof), last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Horses, One Icon | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

While some men remain stoically indifferent to the au courant world of men’s fashion, more are embracing their wardrobes as places of opportunity—and black holes for cash. Kris J. Trujillo ’05 says outfit-choosing is a challenge: “Mostly I am just dressing for myself to see what I can pull off. But other days I dress up for class or meetings,” he says. Opening the door to his closet, he rattled off a list of stores where he had made his most recent purchases: Club...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, Bari M. Schwartz, and Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Strutting their stuff | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

...Williams mentioned did have al-Qaeda links; one trained with Hanjour at an Arizona flight school. A thorough investigation of flight schools might have led to one in Florida where an instructor recalled the odd behavior of 9/11 pilots Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi or to a California outfit that expelled al-Hazmi and al-Midhar for lack of flight skills and poor English. Had Williams' memo been sent to all FBI field offices, it could have set off alarms at the Minneapolis field office when would-be pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 4 Dots American Intelligence Failed To Connect | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

SPAMARAMA: AUSTIN, TX Rick "The Locust" LeFevre set a record this month, gobbling 6 lbs. of Spam in 12 min. His wife cheered him on in a Spam-hued outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marriage Of Gluttony And Sport | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...true” ethnic identity came out exclusively in the realm of my home life. I spoke Bengali with my parents and ate Indian meals. Family occasions and religious festivals were, among other things, excuses to get dressed up in my favorite ghagra outfit. I was raised strictly Indian, with the standards and cultural values to match. But among my high school friends, my “Indianness” was, more than anything else, a source of amusing stories about strict parents and endless weddings, and the justification for sitting through a four-hour Hindi movie...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli, | Title: Different Shades of Brown | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

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