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...fashion limelight again first held sway more than 500 years ago. From 1485 to 1603, the house of Tudor ruled with iconoclastic sovereigns Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and an unshakable belief in power dressing. Forget horse bits and camellias; in the Tudors' heyday, outré looks like the ruff, the codpiece and the farthingale hoopskirt were high-fashion musts...
...appropriate steps to ensure their safety,” Catalano wrote. After the most recent assault on April 26, a special task force comprising Medford, Somerville, and Tufts University police officers convened, according to a press release issued last Thursday by the Medford Police Department. Tufts freshman Victoria G. Ruff said the recent assaults have made her feel “extremely unsafe,” especially since she often spends time on the street where one of the incidents occurred. “I was actually out on the nights when the assaults happened, and we would walk back...
...more than winning them over, Smith was elected president of the fledgling colony in September 1608. Chief executive, military commander and political leader of British America, Smith, at 28, had found a place at last where a man might thrive on bravado and wit. No title, no patron, no ruff-throated pretensions of nobility were required in Smith's Virginia, just an iron will to prevail--and a hornful of powder and shot...
...middle of his junior season, Murphy suggested to Farbotko he had a shot at more than just Crimson football, Fitzgerald simply said “why not?”And some scouts around the country seem to be thinking this guy could be a diamond in the ruff. Both NFL.com and the Chicago Bears website are among the believers. Farbotko boasts a 4.81 40-yard dash, 10’3 broad jump, a 36.5-inch vertical jump, a short shuttle in 4.43, and a three-cone drill time of 7.20. Yet the site also lists Princeton quarterback Jeff Terrell?...
...have heard such pronouncements of impending doom before, of course. Howard Ruff's How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years was a top seller in 1979. Ravi Batra's The Great Depression of 1990 hit No. 1 in 1987. Ruff's book did in fact ring in several very bad years, and there was a recession in 1990. But doom was averted, the economy came roaring back both times, and the lesson learned was that betting against the continued prosperity of the U.S. was a losing strategy...