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...into it with my mother. In your 20s and 30s, if your mother tells you your hair is too long or your skirt is too short or your kids are slobs, you get into it. You get riled. You might even call her a bitch. When the vein throbs in my neck about something my mother does or says, I pour myself a little glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, and I sit down, and I feel very blessed that I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tie That Binds | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...each committee at the beginning of every semester, ensuring that future HoCo funding would not be subject to the whims of the current council. HoCos continue to play an important role in campus life, as they plan regular house-based social events, throw open parties, and skirt potentially more stringent constraints on alcohol at larger events. HoCos, for example, threw Stein Clubs immediately before Yardfest, so that neither the College administration, nor students, would not have to encounter the unfortunate hassle of a policed beer garden. As it begins the fall semester, the UC could further benefit social life...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Bring on the Fun | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...forensic pictures show a family lying together on a grass mat. Agnes Ketheeswaran, 23, is in a pink sarong and green skirt, her husband Palachamy, 25, is bare-chested, and their two sons?four years old and four months old?are naked between them. Under Palachamy's prone head is a shallow well of blood. On the shiny brown bellies of his two dead boys is blood from their mother, who has been shot in the face. The murders were part of a wave of executions on May 13 on the remote northern Sri Lankan island of Kayts. That evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Peace | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...answer feminist” TF.These TFs are usually women and usually in the humanities, and their distinguishing feature, it seems, is their ability to wear linen at inappropriate times.For those who do not know, linen is a summer fabric. But these TFs wear a black linen skirt with a gray linen tunic in the middle of January. In order to make up for the wild impracticality of all this, they then decide to pair the ensemble with clogs. If I didn’t know these women were 27-year-old grad students with an abiding interest the lesser-known...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Trend is Nigh: Teaching the "Fellows" How to Dress | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...Center, sells items designed for “a swampy more aquatic-oriented future,” according to Van Cleef. The store’s offerings range from t-shirts featuring Van Cleef’s paintings to orange rain dresses, which have a “flared skirt for increased water shedding capacity,” according to her catalog. She said her interest in aquatic themes and human technology is rooted in her early fascination with contrasting industrial decay and swampy land. “I’m from northern New Jersey, and when you take...

Author: By Kyle A. Magida, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Dress Fit For Noah’s Ark | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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