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...business. “People have always come in for advice on what is good taste, what is appropriate, and what is not. They come for the tradition.” Tradition at J. Press comes in the form of tweed suits, wool scarves, and the pi??ce de résistance: silk ties, in every color. After all, there’s nothing like neckwear embroidered with tiny baseball players, cocker spaniels, or clowns to encourage people to take you seriously. All patterns, even the hipster-approved skull and crossbones tie, are J. Press originals. Black explains...
...addition to the full menu of pub grub, the Cambridge Queen’s Head will feature three sizes of appetizers: the “floater,” for one; the “blocking group,” for six to eight; and the pi??ce de résistance, the “endowment,” a giant H-shaped platter featuring every appetizer on the menu...
...Museums,” where the weekly class is often replaced by outings to a new exhibit. Perhaps the program’s greatest plus is that it introduces freshmen to others of the same ilk. Nerds can plot their revenge in “Calculating Pi?? while kleptos can swap prison stories in “The Idea of Crime.” Who knows? You may even find your first-mate in “The Golden Age of Piracy...
Such tactics have helped the uninspiring Caldern close Lpez's once-sizable lead in the polls, although he suffered a setback this month when Lpez disclosed that while Caldern was Fox's Energy Secretary, his brother-in-law received a pi??ata of lucrative federal contracts. Says political analyst Sergio Aguayo: "The fact that Lpez is daring to come to the presidency without his hands tied by privileged interests is something new for Mexico. And it scares a lot of powerful people...
With George Bush the official pi??ata of the music industry (see chart, above) the Dixie Chicks' ordeal should have cooled by now. "We struggle with that all the time," says Maguire. "Are we picking the scab of something that's already healed? Because we don't know what people are thinking." Radio programmers make it their business to know. "They're still through the floor," says Dale Carter, program director at KFKF in Kansas City, Mo. "There's a technology called the Dial where listeners react to songs, and every time we test the Dixie Chicks ..." Carter makes...