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...began earlier and will be resolved more quickly than ever before. What once was a six-month series of debates and votes has been condensed into a cross-country cacophony of sound bites and TV ads that began with the Iowa caucuses on January 24 and will probably be sewn up six weeks later, on March 7, when 16 states hold primaries...
...book store, do you shop at the "young adult" section? When you sign an official document does your guardian have to sign it also? When you go away for the weekend, do you have to call your mother and tell her you got in safely? Are there name tags sewn in all your clothes? Have you thought about the PSATs recently? Do you and your friends dress exactly alike...
Urban Outfitters appears to be at the forefront of the "bra-strap headband" movement. Theirs are available at the "accessories" shelf in the women's section and come in two styles. First is the traditional bra strap sewn together at the ends, and the second consists of two smaller multicolored straps that link in the back. The visual effect is difficult to describe-think flower child meets urban grunge. The headbands cost $8, and the woman working in the store, who was not wearing one, said they seemed to be selling very quickly...
...Though the narrative is as vagrant as Snow Falling on Cedars was rooted, Guterson's gift for spinning atmospheric spells has not deserted him, and moment after moment flashes into life with the quick vividness of a photograph: the men in war going out "in mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly knotted rope," the young couple romancing as "the apples hung heavy in the late-day sun, the leaves stirred in the wind." The danger in such textured simplicity, though, is that the book can seem not quite spare enough for parable...
...conflicting reports from students and organized labor on the one hand, and from the licensees themselves on the other. It is difficult to sit in Cambridge and try to get an accurate picture of conditions in El Salvador, China or Indonesia, where many of these items are actually cut, sewn and screened, and we cannot responsibly try to institute change without knowing what needs changing...