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...while they're here and can use our facilities," says Steifel-Kristensen. "Then we offer to continue elaborating on their ideas after they have left and to make and supply samples." He says Saga will even help teach the designers' fur suppliers the techniques they have learned. Who could resist? Not designer Eric Gaskins, who visited Saga in 1994. "They really show someone who doesn't know fur that well what all the possibilities are," says Gaskins. His collection now includes a mink top patterned after an oversize fisherman's sweater. Saga's website trumpets the fact that a designer...
...ethics. (For making political use of a tax-exempt organization, Gingrich became the first Speaker in history to be punished by the House; he was forced to pay a $300,000 fine.) Meeting with Democratic leaders the day the Starr report arrived on Capitol Hill, Gingrich could not resist rehashing how unfairly he thought he had been treated. He had done more for President Clinton in this scandal, he said bitterly, than anyone from the Democratic Party had done...
...obstructions in front of Sever Hall. Only yesterday, a duo of idiotic tourists were playing the I-can-hear-you game in H.H. Richardson's Romanesque arch at precisely 10:05 a.m. Talk about bad timing! Hundreds of students barreled up the steps and we at Dartboard couldn't resist throwing an elbow at these over-jolly acoustic inquisitors. Silly tourists, Dartboard suggests you pick up a clue at the Harvard Coop, along with a tacky University sweat-shirt, and stay...
...calls it. "Apart from getting the show off the ground," says Reeves, "the challenge is to find a way to make it look like a movie." That means different lighting and a different rhythm, one that allows moments between lines to blossom. In the process Abrams and Reeves must resist the temptation to do multiple takes, which time and the budget simply won't allow...
...bananas. A major study out last week finds that men whose diets are loaded with potassium-rich foods--including bananas, tomatoes and oranges--may be able to cut their risk of stroke by one-third. Resist the temptation to take potassium supplements though: they may be harmful, especially if you have kidney problems...