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Downstairs, a handful of shoppers rummage through clothes piled a foot deep across a wide expanse of floor space at Dollar a Pound+. (In fact, merchandise is currently priced at $1.50 per pound.) A shoe section offers used wingtips and new knee-high boots and stack-heeled monstrosities. Upstairs, clothing is more or less organized into racks of new, used, and vintage ’60s and ’70s duds...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trying Times for Thrift Store | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...orientation meeting, the three congressional and advocacy group staffers who spoke stressed the importance of greeting as many peoplestaff as well as internsas possible during the summer. Who knows, the staffers said, these contacts might be the key to a job in DC. Youll have a stack of business cards this high, one of them said, putting a considerable gap between her thumb and index finger...

Author: By David Zhou, | Title: The Beltway's Secret Network | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...concerns about his future. Similarly, Guelzo's intellectual biography, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, shows a man wrestling with the basic issues of fate and free will, torn between the Calvinism of his youth and the Enlightenment doctrines of freedom. Michael Burlingame's forthcoming multivolume biography will add a tall stack of new documents to the record, including hundreds of newspaper articles that, Burlingame has determined, Lincoln wrote anonymously in his early political career. The articles shed new light on Lincoln's early political hackwork--which, Burlingame argues, makes his later achievements all the more remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The True Lincoln | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...Factory--severe bob, outsize sunglasses--on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. But in Depp's Willie Wonka, isn't there more of an echo of another media figure, one with Wonka's penchant for catchy tunes and the company of small primates? How do the candy hawker and MICHAEL JACKSON stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just a Couple of Eccentrics | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...expense money to William Butler Yeats, then staying at the attorney's (would you believe?) 30-room Manhattan apartment. Jack has sticky fingers; he usually lightens the cash envelope, and when his boss dies, Morrison and his sister-in-law steal a Yeats manuscript from the apartment, bypassing a stack of paintings by Renoir. Says Emily Morrison: "Anything Irish got to be better." Her son Jimmy has no such flair for literary appreciation. He finds easier pickings as a corrupt union officer, and fathers Owney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just One More for the Road | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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