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...Viki Stevenson stands behind the counter, passing fashion judgment. She's wearing a gauzy black Viktor & Rolf blouse and skinny Diesel jeans as she sorts through a pile of clothes in the shop where she works in Brooklyn, N.Y. After rejecting a high-waisted, sequined pink skirt, she snaps up four G-Star narrow-cut cotton T shirts. "You gotta know your brands," she says, as she tosses the keepers into a metal...
...Stevenson isn't a buyer at an exclusive boutique. She's a store manager who decides what items to accept for resale at a secondhand-clothing shop called Buffalo Exchange. It's part of a growing chain of stores in a growing industry, and it just may be the cool place to find trendy fashions at a fair price this summer. These are not the musty, downmarket stores of yore. The best ones are as carefully curated as a Soho boutique; put a premium on current styles, not vintage novelties; and turn a healthy profit...
...Twice, things seemed to be going well or reasonably well, and the incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
...idea just how close it would be. The Crimson (5-11, 2-5 Ivy) defeated Brown (4-11, 1-6 Ivy) by a score of 12-11 when junior attack Caroline Simmons scored off of a free position shot with only 28 seconds remaining last night on Stevenson Field. Harvard had gone down early in the game as the Bears scored three goals in the first ten minutes to seize the lead. The deficit boded ill for the Crimson, as this season’s team has too often allowed the opposition to take the lead on early runs...
...Throughout the next decade, Schlesinger wrote about the rising threat of Stalinism, chronicled “The Age of Roosevelt”, and provided advice to Democratic causes and presidential candidates like Adlai E. Stevenson...