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...year seem like a glistening beacon of originality, and leggings a glorious flattering invention (I know you may find this hard to believe; I do too, because I looked like Jean Paul Sartre in my leggings). 2007 boasts universally unbecoming trends such as huge puff sleeves, mid-calf length skirts, mod-shift dresses and, horror upon horror, cigarette pants.Sometimes, while daydreaming in a particularly horrible lecture about the life of Wordsworth, for example, I fantasize about what designers were thinking when they designed this year’s collections. Did they all think that huge sleeves look good...
...worried some of the party faithful, but Cameron wants his big ideas to appeal across party lines. "You have to do what Bill Clinton did and build a big tent," says Dale, paying respect to a man whom an older generation of Conservatives dismissed as a pot-smoking, skirt-chasing lefty. But even Dale would like Cameron to signal to traditional Tories that "the old issues will be treated as seriously as the new ones." That might mean an overt reiteration of the Tories' traditional claim to be the party of low taxation. Or - always a favorite with the right...
...piece of engineering, the BTC pipeline is a brilliant geopolitical bank shot. Built over three years, the pipeline had to skirt war zones in the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan, and in Georgia, which has been in a conflict with South Ossetian separatists. Then there were the engineering issues: the pipeline had to pass under about 1,500 rivers. At one point BP hired 400 archaeologists to sift through the mountain of ancient artifacts unearthed along the way. Equally daunting was the political wrangling: two of the three countries changed Presidents during construction, requiring lengthy renegotiations over...
...don’t. 6. Pants under dresses: See Rebecca M. Harrington’s column. 7. Leopard print: Your Tarzan fetish is better left in the private sphere. 8. Knit dresses: There is never an excuse to wear a sock as a dress. Never. 9. Balloon skirts: It always looks as if your skirt is tucked in your panties. 10. Harvard Class of 2010 t-shirt: Enough said. —Emily G. W. Chau ’08 is outgoing Arts Monday editor and incoming Campus Arts editor. She, unlike KMM, actually does love her DG sisters...
...know any better….They had a 12-year-old girl who was wearing a leotard with a ballroom gown on top. And she started singing “If You Wish Upon a Star.” And 30 seconds into it she ripped off the skirt and was wearing just the leotard and doing this sexy dance and it was so weird because she was only...