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...also argued that the suit is not valid because the coalition of plaintiffs are mostly individuals or law schools—but not the universities that would be denied funding should the law schools ban military recruitment on campus...
...full daylight on a weekday, and he had no tie on." You Look Nice Today is a comic novel with a tragic heart, and for a portrait of corporate life, you'd have to go back to Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit to find its equal. Rather than another searing indictment, Bing gives us a cockeyed love letter to the executive suite, and he reminds us that while we may hate that gray flannel suit, we can get very cold at night without it. --By Lev Grossman
...cheesy, because since he opened his first store in Houston 30 years ago, Men's Wearhouse has become the largest men's clothing retailer in the U.S., a $1 billion company with 507 locations. It has outlasted dozens of competitors and survived casual Fridays and a slump in suit sales to show surprising growth this year. Now Zimmer plans to make Men's Wearhouse a $5 billion company that also sells sports clothes and designer wear, rents tuxedos and operates dry cleaners...
...also engaged in acrimonious and counterproductive sniping matches with politicians and the press. When opposition lawmaker Kim Moon Su first accused Roh of hiding his land holdings?Roh denies any wrongdoing?the President filed a $2.5 million libel suit against Kim and four newspapers that published stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul...
...bespoke Savile Row suit is a British icon, right up there with the Beatles, the Queen and the red double-decker bus. So you should probably be sitting down for this: Kilgour French Stanbury, tailors to the well-heeled and well-dressed, are making some of their suits in Shanghai. Why? The same reason anybody makes anything in China these days: it's a lot cheaper. The Shanghai suits start at $1,650, a mighty markdown from the $5,800 for the made-in-London versions. But is it still a Savile Row suit if it's made in China...