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...taste? Miuccia Prada, now 46, grew up in the world of couture, learning about fine fabrics from her mother and wearing Saint Laurent as a teenager. The playoff between the trappings of elegance and industrial streamlining is Prada's signature. Her first designs back in 1979 were backpacks and tote bags cut along classic lines but made of tough nylon used by the Italian army. They are now the '90s equivalent of Louis Vuitton initials. Prada says she was drawn to designing by her overwhelming fascination with clothes and textiles (she still has every outfit she ever bought and lifts...
...feel comfortable lying to the FBI," Whitacre said. Instead, he blurted the truth to special agent Brian Shepard, "a very trustworthy guy" who ran the Decatur office. Whitacre soon agreed to carry a recorder hooked to his inside coat pocket while working in the office and to tote a briefcase rigged with a taping device to sessions between ADM representatives and those of other companies. He also tipped the FBI to meetings where prices might be discussed with representatives of other companies so the agents could videotape the proceedings. "It's amazing, some of the stuff that came...
...past, Davis had made his exams "open everything." But students had begun to tote inch-think reams of copied answers to previous exams and problem sets, making it easy for those with the most photocopies to answer any recycled questions...
When I pack up my tote...
...Thin Untrue Books: Under this heading I would group all hard-cover fiction under 120 pages. Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County is the paradigm for books of this sort. All Thin Untrue books must be handsomely bound, like something an immaculately groomed man would tote in the hand not clutching his leather attache. If these books were to be written in, and translated from, Albanian by Albania's premier husband-and-wife writer-translator team, so much the better...