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Whether or not a decent outcome is eventually achieved, Iraq won't present President Bush with the triumphant centerpiece of a successful reelection campaign. Still, Americans' fear of terror remains a rich seam of political support for the president - indeed, recent polls indicate that while more Americans believe his presumptive challenger, Senator John Kerry, would do a better job handling Iraq, Bush has a significant lead when the question is who would do a better job of fighting terrorism. Not surprisingly, then, the president's handlers have sought to make terrorism the prism through which the Bush presidency must...
...services. At polo.com browsers can design their own polo shirts, choosing from a selection of 32 body colors and 12 pony-logo colors. Shirts are made to order and delivered within two weeks. Next month oxford shirts, below, complete with the date of origin stitched into the lower-right seam above the vent, will be available for customization in 11 colors and 8 pony-color options. The idea for the service came when customers began asking for the classic shirts in offbeat colors. Now custom orders amount to roughly 10% of the website's business. "Even my dad is ordering...
...that, according to Mazza, has opened up a different perspective out on the field. Now accustomed to seeing so many balls heaved his way, he spends less time worrying about actually recording the catch, instead focusing on where the available seam has begun to open...
There was not a seam to be seen in the diverse collection on the runway, nor any misstep in the execution of the multimedia display encompassing the 40-foot catwalk specifically designed for the production. The show’s organizers, student theater group BlackCAST, bypassed the typical runway venues in favor of a surround-sound multi-sensory experience of movement, expression and talent, creating what one crew member described as “a virtual playground...
Male designers are well known for their visions of female sexuality and glamour, but for decades the behind-the-seams story of fashion has been the influence of women not as models, but as makers and marketers of clothes. Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers...