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...student crowd with its limited-edition trainers and courier satchels. At Prayed, tel: (49-40) 4018 7816, bohemians gleefully rummage through racks of kaftans while at Faktorei Geheim, tel: (49-40) 2805 3485, the husband-and-wife team of Detlef and Britta Klug revamp army jackets and other typical thrift-store wear with funky floral embroidery...
...great contact to have to get speakers and for administrative support.” Prior to his current post at Harvard, Retsinas was assistant secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. Since its establishment in 1976, Habitat volunteers have built over 200,000 houses, providing shelter for one million people...
These days, the audience alone is entertaining enough to justify the price of admission for most “indie rock” shows. Tight denim, prized thrift shop finds, and purposefully mussed-up hairdos adorned the high school girls and forty-something hipsters alike at last weekend’s Spoon concert at the Avalon in Boston. Known best for their spare sound and danceable backbeats, the foursome from Texas delivered on both counts, mixing most of the songs on their recent “Gimme Fiction” LP, with at least one song from each of their...
...Representative in the 1990s, Mark Sanford often slept on an office futon instead of renting a Washington apartment. That kind of conspicuous frugality helped him get elected Governor of South Carolina in 2002. But a growing chorus of critics, including leaders of his own G.O.P., fear that his thrift has brought the state's economy to a standstill. This summer Standard & Poor's lowered South Carolina's coveted AAA-bond rating to AA+, citing unemployment of 6.3% and a per capita income ($27,172) stuck in the nation's bottom fifth. The state had just lost...
CHART: NOT AVAILABLE CREDIT: NO CREDIT CAPTION: THE DUBIOUS VENTURE During the 1980s, the Clintons were involved in an Arkansas real estate partnership with a crash-and-burn thrift-operator whose collapsed institution cost taxpayers $47 million. The Clintons deny any wrongdoing, but many mysteries endure, including how much they knew about their partner's activities and whether any of the S&L funds were diverted into the Governor's campaign coffers...