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Katie Larson is little too young to get it. Her dad Brian has just slipped a blue-and-white-striped shepherd smock over her head. "Look at you," he says. "It's perfect." But Katie, 2, doesn't think so. Two years ago she was Baby Jesus, and that costume was much more comfortable. She begins to cry. "Do you want to hold this cute little baby sheep?" Brian asks, waving a stuffed toy before his daughter's beet-red face. Still no sale...
...memoir begins with Rowan's early days in Shanghai as a recruit for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, helping its Nationalist-run counterpart shepherd U.S. aid shipments through China's countryside amid the chaos that followed World War II. The 26-year-old finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy...
...chair, Glazer helped shepherd bills through University Hall, including ones that provided universal keycard access and blue light phones in Cambridge Commons. Capp, the current council treasurer, drafted the bill for this fall’s series of financial reforms after the council bounced last semester checks that totaled about...
Fancy-pants fashionistas going populist may help Shepherd and his fellow starving students save a few bucks, but it’s not yet clear what’s in it for the designers. Creating an affordable clothing line is a difficult task; a designer must appeal to the masses while maintaining the reputation he has cultivated on the catwalk...
...little disappointed in Karl,” Shepherd says. “I figured he’d bring a bit more wit, and less homogeneity, to the world of consumer fashion...