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...impossibly thin model struts down the long black runway in front of legions of would-be-critics gracing the front rows, walking a bit unsteadily in the face of the blinding lights. It’s a familiar scene to anyone who has ever watched “Project Runway” or flipped through Vogue. But lack of the ever-pregnant Heidi Klum aside, there’s something different about this show, and it’s not just the questionably glamorous locale of the Lowell Dining Hall. This isn’t your standard parade of fashion...
...Eleganza” behemoth, but the mission of each show was decidedly different. Where the fledgling “Identities” intended to scrutinize carefully Asian-American culture, the broad, diversity-encouraging mission of “Eleganza” was ultimately obscured in the dazzling runway spectacle...
...from the Today show to David Letterman to Anderson Cooper to beg forgiveness for the popular airline's Valentine's Day debacle. The company had stranded more than 100,000 travelers after bad weather decimated its operating ability--in one case JetBlue passengers were left on a snowed-in runway for more than nine hours. Neeleman's mea culpa reached its apogee with a series of full-page national-newspaper ads: "Words cannot express how truly sorry we are for the anxiety, frustration and inconvenience that you, your family, friends and colleagues experienced." Neeleman rolled out a Customer Bill...
Stewart's high-profile endorsement will give these venerable sewing-machine brands that have been around for more than 140 years another way to reach the generation of young women who are embracing sewing. Call it the Project Runway effect. Inspired by the reality TV show, in which aspiring designers compete for an entry into the fashion world, young people in growing numbers are trying their hand at wielding needle and thread. The Home Sewing Association estimates that there are about 35 million sewing hobbyists in the U.S., up from roughly 30 million in 2000, and annual sales of machines...
Such is life in Iraqi Kurdistan, the last beacon of stability amid the wreckage of the U.S. enterprise in Iraq. Of course, stability is a relative term. True, the airport is putting in a runway long enough to accommodate jumbo jets, but for now it will be used mainly for U.S. military flights. That's because only one Western carrier--Austrian Airlines--is brave enough to land there. Other flights are run by off-brand charters with names like Flying Carpet and Middle Eastern carriers like Iraqi Airways. And even those are unreliable. Many of the officials at Iraqi Airways...