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Seen on the necks of classy Harvard students this season: an unmistakable pattern, an arguably unattractive yet undeniable status symbol. Not a hickey from a winter romance, but a Burberry scarf...
...scarves, umbrellas and luggage. Recently, the company—under new management since 1997—launched a modish marketing campaign aimed at the fashionable and impressionable youth of the world, introducing the fragrance Burberry Touch a couple of years ago. If dressing oneself in the old check pattern is not enough to satisfy diehard fans, Burberry Barbie—who sports a plaid kilt, scarf and bag and is “classic in every sense of the word”—is available for $88 from www.dollsanddarlings.com. A pattern once appropriate only on Grandfather?...
While the data does have its irregularities, McCarthy noted a pattern of warmer temperatures due to the greenhouse effect...
...keep in mind what Pearl’s last words say about his personal integrity, but let us keep the other two lessons in mind as well. A sad pattern emerges in history when evil, and particularly anti-Semitism, is not fought in its nascent stages. Thank God we have a president who is willing to fight—because we absolutely must...
...enrollment in Islamic art courses. "I had people sitting on the floor, we were so full," says Renata Holod, professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, of her course at the University of Pennsylvania. Numbers are still small--Holod's class now attracts about 30 students--but it's a pattern that's being echoed on campuses elsewhere. "The art gives a more accurate view of that culture," says Linda Komaroff, LACMA's Islamic curator. "Visitors will come away with the idea that the people who created the stuff sought to surround themselves with beauty...