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...Guin is a sci-fi fantasy author) the designer quickly comes up with a vision for her creation. With a photography project to complete, Baird knows she won’t have much time, so she keeps the concepts simple. With an idea for her “space-age cocktail dress” in mind, she heads out with fellow competitor, Vicky D. Sung ’10, to a fabric store in Boston. Winmil Fabrics is a dingy, unassuming store overflowing with fabrics in every color and texture: from stretch cotton to light chiffon, patterned fleeces to psychedelic...
...forward that took place a few hours after Gore’s speech and a few hundred yards to the south: the unveiling of Harvard’s revised master plan for Allston. While the new plans certainly have their issues, the revision reflects a desire to make green space the hallmark of the future campus. “The new plans are such a demonstrable example of thinking of how important the land is and how important nature is,” says Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s chief planner for the Allston initiative...
Surrounded by headless mannequins and tables cluttered with fabric, needles, and thread, Quinn L. Dang ’09 comments on the superiority of this space to past rooms she’s worked in. “We had this small costume shop in high school...you’d sit there costuming for hours. It was tiny and stuffy—we called it the shop of horrors.” Now seated in the costuming area of Loeb Experimental Theatre, Dang, who has been involved in fashion since high school, talks about her experiences costuming for various...
...fire sale,” Primack said. “A fire sale is when you get what you can and move on, whereas a yard sale means ‘we’ve got a lot of stuff in the garage and could use some extra space by getting rid of some of the old stuff.’” Private equity has traditionally been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning an annualized return of 28.5 percent over the past 10 years. This return has been lower...
...That's not to say there can't and shouldn't be stringent types of regulations to prevent abuse, protect minors and protect health. But it would be better from a public health perspective, and it would vastly improve the criminal justice system - among other things, by freeing up space and resources for others who are actually engaging in violent crime...