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...popularize what's known as the bridge category--less expensive career-based clothing--in the early 1980s. Then, responding to the demand for trendier, more comfortable clothing, he started Theory in 1997 with former Anne Klein executive Andrew Rosen. The idea was to base a whole contemporary collection around stretch fabrics, particularly pants. Tahari sold his Theory stake for $53 million in 2003 (He is now suing Rosen for $182 million claiming "fraudulent self-dealing." Rosen calls the suit "a fantasy ... created in total disregard of the facts") and in 2004 made an unsuccessful bid to buy Barneys, the fashion...
...chose not to. But nor did I incline toward the trashy Goosebumps or Mystic Mountain High (that’s made up, but you know the type) families. So for a while, I tracked the adventures of Encyclopedia Brown, the finest sleuth this side of the Atlantic. A stretch with that endless series about the Boxcar Children. Then I turned my attention to the Redwall saga, those enchanting tales of mice slaying snakes and badgers wielding clubs and the entire abbey feasting on pot pies and drinking cordials far into the night. And I was content. Sometimes, though...
...landed at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later realize the moment offered only a sample of the kind of anxiety whenever you drive around Baghdad...
...nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American Family might have mirrored real life for younger kids, but with the accent on the positive, not the corrosive...
...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...