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Labels such as Zegna, Hugo Boss, Brioni and Ralph Lauren have been serving the upscale-menswear market for years. And überexclusive brands like Kiton, along with London's Savile Row tailors, have long catered to the customer who wants a suit made from scratch--a process that involves a muslin sample, several fittings and lots of cash. Now fashion-forward designers are refitting this service-oriented market...
...credit, Imus never played the "I'm sick" card. Perhaps he felt confident because he had been legitimized by his high-profile guests. Imus could have made a remark just as bad years ago and suffered few if any consequences. Scratch that: Imus did make remarks as bad or worse for years. Speaking about Gwen Ifill, the African-American PBS anchor who was then White House correspondent for the New York Times, he said, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." He called a Washington Post writer a "boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jewboy...
...Given the Crimson’s struggles in virtually all aspects of the game this season, it’s easy to say that Harvard needs to start from scratch. But most of the pieces are already in place; there are just three questions that the Crimson needs to answer...
...Nkyekyer ’07 is the only TF this year to have taken a Harvard Swahili class before teaching one. Although she is originally from Ghana, Nkyekyer’s native language, Akan, didn’t give her a leg up while studying here. Nkyekyer started from scratch, gradually acquiring the textbook skills that made her capable to teach this year. The student became the TF. Yoda would be proud.Pillsbury, who is also a Crimson photographer, also learned Swahili as a second language, but in Tanzania, not Cambridge. After graduating from high school in Los Angeles, she spent...
...shows that all members supported the Board of Freshman Advisers option over the House tutors option, the plan ultimately selected. Rinere later explained that the tally results were in response to a question asking committee members which model they would choose if able to start the advising system from scratch.“Often students feel like going to an adviser is like going to a doctor,” she said. “You don’t want to explain your whole history again every year.”The plan to employ freshman advisers through...