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...selected this navy blue button-up with white vertical stripes from H & M ($12) because it frames Will’s neck nicely. The sharp angles create drama and the stiff collar suggests power and confidence. It also fits! The hem where the sleeve is sewn to the shirt should always line up with the joint where the arm attaches to the shoulder. This more blatant display of chest hair now empowers him with virility. His shirt doesn’t try to hide his chest hair like before. It accepts and exposes it. Tight corduroy pants from J.Crew show...
...Kedia and Sthankey can thank an increasingly liberalized Indian economy for their more affluent lifestyle. For the first four decades after India gained independence from Britain in 1947, its socialist-leaning leadership, fearful of domination by foreigners, walled off its economy from global markets, using high tariffs and stiff entry barriers. An ideology favoring small cottage industries, fostered by no less a figure than Mohandas Gandhi, led the government to tie up private enterprise in a web of regulations, nicknamed the License Raj, that shifted economic power to inept bureaucrats. Foreign companies pushing their way in often found that only...
...scared stiff,” he told jurors, using a phrase repeated several times during his testimony. “I was scared for my life at that very moment...
...mean parents should give up on implants. The risk of infection is still tiny. The study advises that all children getting implants have the shots (pneumococcal and Hib) that protect against meningitis. Also, parents should watch for warning signs of infection, such as a high fever and a stiff neck. --By David Bjerklie
D.A.s have other concerns too. The National District Attorneys Association has called for DNA testing "at any stage of a criminal proceeding--even up to the eve of execution"--and stiff penalties for defense lawyers who don't adequately represent capital suspects. But Earle is going further. He is trying to do in his corner of Texas what death-penalty opponents say is impossible: enforce capital punishment flawlessly, ensuring that the innocent never spend a day on death row and the guilty are sent there only after trials free of bias and vengeance. Earle hopes that by raising every conceivable...