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...easy to point to Sept. 11 as the watershed moment when America turned into a nation of nesters and began eating chicken potpies at home while wearing pearls and sweater sets. But, says Françoise Serralta of Peclers Paris, an international trend-forecasting agency, the shift really started earlier, in anticipation of the new millennium: "Sept. 11 only speeded up a reaction to what was already happening." The ongoing terrorist threat, sluggish economy and war in Iraq have helped fuel the thirst for nostalgia, but there are other factors at work...
...bona fide economic motives behind the theft (and I really hope the bandit is using the cash from my bike to pay his landlord, not his dealer). But from my point of view, it felt like a bully had just pushed me into the dirt, stamped on my favorite sweater and taken my fruit rollup...
...learn that her school had topped the list, Soyre hid her copy of the Journal behind her second-place squash trophies. Unfortunately Hopkinson had already heard the news. At breakfast, she couldn’t refrain her joy. The resulting fracas ended in a torn cashmere Polo sweater, broken nails and an emergency trip to Gino for new highlights...
...media joined her. “And I wish we could do it longer for Cully and for Mina as well. Because to me, ultimately, that’s the saddest part of today, that these kids won’t have an opportunity to be in a Harvard sweater again...
...they continued to grow closer off the ice throughout high school, gathering a group of “15 really good friends” around themselves, one final chance remained for the pair to recapture a closeness lost the last time they’d pulled off the same sweater...