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...outs (on religious grounds, for example). In the meantime, while there doesn't seem to be much consolation for boys facing the specter of an adolescent wardrobe defined primarily by necktie purchases, girls have a little more room for individuality. Here's a quick tip: Buy your skirt one size too big so you can roll it at the waist. It's great for those really hot spring days - and for when you want to make an impression. Trust me on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Schools, It's Good-bye Hilfiger, Hello Blazer | 5/9/2000 | See Source »

Ding, who is quite carefully made up, wears a short skirt and fashionably tight...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: A FAST Company: Talent Agent balances school, professional life | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...beginning was happening," Joseph says. "We built this house together with our bare hands." In the mornings Nereciana would don her black-and-white igitenge (a sort of floral skirt) and rubber flip-flops and head out with Joseph to work the fields. Nereciana, a talkative woman, loved recounting the tales of Bakame, a mythical rabbit who is always playing tricks on humans and other animals. And for Joseph, hunched over, listening to his wife, it seemed that even though life was hard, "this was, for us, a time of great hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rwandan Sorrow | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...tropical storm quickly takes shape over the Atlantic Ocean, a furiously whirling dervish with a skirt of thunderstorms. But just as quickly the storm is challenged by dozens of National Weather Service planes, which sally forth from East Coast airstrips like fighters on the tail of an enemy bomber. Attacking from above and below, the planes fire off a barrage of esoteric weapons that sap the strength of the raging winds in the developing eye wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Control The Weather? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Phat Tuesday’s in Cancun was great until the DJ put on a remix of “Back that Ass Up.” The pumping rhythm induced a 350-pound woman to strip off her skirt and, in fact, back that ass up...directly into my face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Spring Break Disasters | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

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