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...dress." The collection's 35 gowns--and they were all gowns; he showed nothing for daytime--seemed aimed at filling that gap. Although the prices in the Armani Privé collection--from about $10,000 to $90,000--are lower than the industry standard, Armani didn't skimp on beading. With an atelier of 25, he created sculpted dresses with fishtails and intricately worked bodices. "I hope that people have understood that I can do something other than a man's suit on a woman," he said. Penélope Cruz seemed to get it. "I have four films coming...
...always first," writes Faura. "Family means your mom and dad and brothers and sisters and second cousins and cousins of your aunt's husband's sister and aunts of your mom's second cousin Dionisia from Veracruz." (Or, in real-world terms, Parilla, a single mom, won't skimp on her baby, no matter how stretched her pocketbook.) Plus, diapers are a growth category: 1 in 5 babies born in the U.S., and 1 in 2 in California, is Hispanic...
...life is a priority. Today, many students are distrustful of an administration they see as only interested in providing education as economically efficiently as possible. They are tired of being viewed as customers in a machine—especially when Harvard’s prestigious name allows it to skimp on services relative to its counterparts. Students are supposed to call Harvard home, and the College is supposed to be central to the University’s mission. For too long, Harvard has defaulted on that responsibility for the simple reason that economics allow Harvard to get away with...
...door on Valentine’s Day but he sent it back when he discovered that the sides of warm cuddling and sweet pillow talk were left out of the order. La Bonne’s thesis-writing girlfriend, Jill N. Bernard ’04, tried to skimp on the Valentine’s festivities by skipping the foreplay, so she could get back to finishing her most recent chapter, but La Bonne would have none of it. Says La Bonne, “Some guys might like to have a girl stop by just for a few hours...
These are certainly valid points. But a University that purports to the best in the world should not skimp on such a basic and essential product. Cottonnelle is also not as wasteful as it may seem—its added thickness means it takes fewer sheets to do the job, which easily makes up for the fact that it offers only 400 sheets per roll. And the University wouldn’t necessarily have to go 100 percent Cottonelle—Cabot House offers a good middle ground for the cost and conservation conscious: its superintendent offers both types...