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Blame it on Wall Street's astronomical bonuses. When you have the Gulfstream 550, the Maybach and the Warhols, what else do you need? The answer is your very own tailor--a place where you can go to get the perfect suit while being cared for with the ultimate service. That may be one reason made-to-measure menswear--or couture menswear, as it is often called--is the new must-have for the hedge-fund...
...formed some 585 million years ago, it was not "discovered" until 1967. Nomadic Masai tribes had pried balls of the stone from outcroppings on the surface of the earth, but it was only when outsiders noticed that the stone took off. One of them, Manuel D'Souza, an Indian tailor living in Tanzania who was a hobbyist prospector, helped bring it to the attention of Tiffany, and the New York City jeweler signed on for an exclusive. Tiffany is said to have named the stone tanzanite?after judging the technical name, blue zoisite, to be too close to the English...
...immoral. Such attitudes, as you might imagine, were not conducive to peaceful coexistence in a country that is composed of religious traditionalists, Westernized secularists, and everything in between. That these days a woman chooses her life partner from a broader range of candidates, and feels confident enough to tailor her hejab accordingly, suggests an erosion of social boundaries that can only be healthy for a country that had a revolution, in part, over the role of religion in governance and daily life. It is difficult to envision that authoritarian laws have somehow made Iranian society more tolerant. There...
...beauty of both ideas is that they are simple and local. "You can't tailor integration measures from the top down," says Steve Vertovec, director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at Oxford University. "Integration means building common ground rules on civility, and this happens on the local level. Cohesion is all about everyday interactions, in the supermarket or on the playground." Successful, long-lasting integration takes place in community clubs and children's play groups, bake sales and block parties. Programs don't have to be big or expensive; Kotler says Education Bradford runs its twinning scheme...
Likewise, Pandey is no mere invention. "In the 1990s, I read a newspaper article about a tailor in Calcutta who stood for every election," Saraf recalls. "He always lost but considered it his duty to run. I wondered, What if he won? There are a number of films, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which a golden-hearted fool has an awkward brush with the levers of government. Those films usually end with a warm and fuzzy feeling. Obviously, I do not hold Indian democracy to such high standards...