Word: roberts
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...have a built-in test market in its chic department-store partners. Moss's 50-piece collection might seem cheap compared with most everything else Barneys has to offer--prices range from around $24 for a strappy tank top to $300 for a leather jacket--but these days, says Robert Burke, a retail consultant in New York, fashion retail's territorial lines are blurring. "Traditional categories no longer exist," he says. "There's almost a reverse snobbery today: people really like the idea of mixing a variety of price points." In other words, few fashionistas think twice about pairing...
Slaveholders and abolitionists both used Christianity to promote their cause. The Civil Rights movement that was incubated in black churches in the South used the same Christian texts as Senator Robert Byrd, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of the “Curse of Ham.” The same creator who gave us “inalienable rights” has yet to extend those rights to same-sex marriages. Historically as Americans, we have used religion to comfort many in the midst of tragedy at certain times, and to cause tragedy for some...
...Robert C. Darnton ’60, a Princeton historian specializing in 18th-century France, has been chosen to lead the Harvard University Library, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced yesterday afternoon...
Seidel's candidacy could also pose a challenge to freshman councilor Craig A. Kelley, an outspoken critic of both City Manager Robert W. Healy, Cambridge's chief executive, and his fellow councilors. Kelley and Seidel share much of the same political base: middle-class, progressive voters concerned about education reform and environmental issues...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East and Time.com's intelligence columnist, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...