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...Only in Milan can you watch a trend walk right off one runway and onto several others in a matter of hours. On day three of fashion week it was the wrapped rugged belt that showed up on Miuccia Prada?s runway - a men?s version cinched tightly around the waist and looped over once - on Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon this place was belt city. There were the early adapters: magazine editors teetering out of the Four Season?s hotel with brown belts cinching their silk frocks. Then at runway shows like Trussardi?s, bright red or yellow python belts...
...like “Dallas” and “Trains Across the Sea” were heart-wrenching and earnest to the point of goosebumps.Even a line like “I love you to the max” was total, front-on honest, and the shockingly tight musicianship drove all that honesty like an old-timey steam-train to our hearts.Lyrics are the also the stock-and-trade of the third superstar on our list: John Darnielle, aka The Mountain Goats. His set was perfect. Fans got to hear unbelievably obscure nuggets like “Lady...
...play,” Crimson coach Jennifer Weiss added. “A lot of people did some great things.” The Bobcats stumbled out of the gates, allowing Harvard to take an early lead with three errors in the first six volleys. But the game stayed tight, as the Crimson led by just 14-10. Then, Harvard blew the match open. Senior Katie Turley-Molony had a kill and two service aces as part of a 10-1 Crimson run to take a 24-11 lead. Quinnipiac would score twice more, but Harvard took the game...
...Talk: “Night Ripper”Mashups have been enjoying success over the last few years, but most people have considered them novelties; if they were art, they were of the moustache-on-Mona-Lisa variety. Enter “Night Ripper,” an ultra-tight 40 minute survey of pop music, 5 seconds at a time. Restlessly shifting beats, melodies, and vocals, there are enough ideas here to create hours and hours of lesser music. Instead, 250-some samples are fired off as quickly as they can be identified, giving the effect that every song...
...reform program." In Astana, Kuat Akizhanov, 30, head of the social-economic analysis department of the all-powerful presidential staff, holds a law degree from the University of Virginia, which he obtained under Kazakhstan's state-paid training program. He says his young Western-educated counterparts now constitute a tight network in major state institutions and private companies. "Even now," Akizhanov says, "we're mapping out our prospective kids' future. That's what the country picked up our school tab for - to help make it that stable...