Word: ribboning
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...cloud looms over the picturesque horizon. After the holidays, the roommates will uproot the Christmas tree and unfurl the Love Actually ribbon from the walls. But Ahn and Galbreth know how to move on—Lord of the Rings is about to be released on DVD. And with a new movie comes a new challenge, at least for Ahn and her fellow movie-lovers. “[We’ll] see if we can sit through the 14-hour marathon.” Poignantly and somewhat disappointedly, Ahn adds, “I don’t think...
According to the fashion industry bible Women’s Wear Daily, Harvard students would benefit from pulling their noses out of their books and taking a long look at Vogue, an episode of The O.C. or even (especially?) a full-length mirror. North Face? Ubiquitous. Ribbon belts? Not a trace of irony. Pashminas? Multiplying every...
Bush has in hand a 2001 blue-ribbon President's commission report that concluded that personal accounts can work as part of a long-term fix. The commission's work is expected to be the starting point for reform discussions. A member of the commission, Robert Pozen, CEO of mutual-fund firm MFS Investment Management, says he believes future benefits must be cut to fix the system. He endorses personal savings accounts as "the sugar to get people to accept some slowdown in the growth of benefits." So far, advocates of reform have promised that people near or at retirement...
...went commercial, with a collection of fresh cotton suits and sexy draped and knotted jersey dresses inspired by Greek togas. Viktor & Rolf, the Dutch duo who launched their first perfume, Flowerbomb, with the cosmetics giant L'Oral, gave the safari jacket and the tuxedo a feminine edge with ribbon trim...
...addition to such accolades as the blue ribbon at the American Film Festival, Primary won Kennedy’s approval, and he invited cinéma vérité directly into the Oval Office. The result was the 1963 film, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, which documented the federal government’s standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace over educational integration. Few films since have chronicled presidential power with such immediacy—an immediacy too acute for the tastes of the New York Times editorial page, which lambasted Kennedy for making a mockery of the governing process...