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...high-end phenomenon. Earlier this year, Gap and Old Navy decided to devote floor space in their stores to maternity wear, which they had been selling only online. H&M has also got into the act. Its Mama collection is swiftly gaining notoriety among bargain hunters as the Scandinavian phenom expands throughout the U.S. Other retailers are spiffing up their maternity departments: Target now offers a collection designed by Liz Lange, a former editor at Vogue magazine and the first designer to show a maternity collection at New York's fashion week. All items cost less than...
...page police blotter. Kobe Bryant makes it front-page news--not simply because he and Shaquille O'Neal are the Guts and Godzilla of the star-studded Lakers, not because he scored 30 points a game last season or because he went straight from high school legend to NBA phenom. Not even because he recently inked a $45 million endorsement deal with Nike. But because he is one of the NBA's prime icons of clean and keen...
Yorke's response to becoming a marketing phenom was to hole up in a recording studio for two years to make a hermetically sealed album. Kid A in 2000 opened with the lyric "Yesterday I woke up sucking on a lemon," and then it got dark. Melodies were buried under horns bleating free jazz and drum machines vomiting arrhythmia. The lyrics were difficult to hear, and those that did make it through were not about sunshine and lollipops. The process of making Kid A, by Yorke's admission, was as disturbing as the material. Three hundred hours were spent...
...phenom led the league in kills (440) and blocks (36 solo, 80 assisted) on her way to being named Ivy Player of the Year. She was also named an American Volleyball Coaches Association Northeast Region All-American and was the only unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection...
...close matches the last time against Oklahoma State, but we should be more prepared for tomorrow, given a different lineup and a lot of previous experience,” freshman phenom Eva Wang said yesterday...