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Skorts have often been regarded as the tuna Mornay of fashion: comfortable yet tasteless. But with the flippy new styles sported at Wimbledon last week by the physically gifted (Anna Kournikova, center), the athletically gifted (Serena Williams, left) and virtual unknowns (Asa Svensson) alike, the skirt-shorts combo may be back. "I think it's cute," says Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys and a noted style sultan. "I could see Carrie Bradshaw wearing one in Sex and the City with a pair of Blahniks." Kournikova's Adidas skort is already in stores ($45). Be warned, though: the new styles...
...Paul Chloe, a thirtyish civil-servant during his mid-week days off. He's a jerk. Arrogant and acerbic, he snaps at his wife and puts down his friends. But he seems more desperate than angry. His moral compass has gone haywire. He shoplifts a can of tuna because "food always tastes better when it's free," but helps an old man who has fallen to the curb. On Tuesday night, after boozing it up with his "pals" he snatches a wad of cash from the hands of an unsavvy pedestrian. Where the book could now turn heavy with plot...
...Swiping tuna in Andrew Zaben's "Tuesday and Thursday...
...reasons for the reforms, adding: "You can't be a friend of the fishing industry without first being a friend of the fish." Overfishing is the primary cause of the near collapse of a range of species that have been culinary staples across Europe, including cod, haddock, mullet, herring, tuna and swordfish. Fish populations are at perilously low levels: the population of cod in the North Sea has dropped 60% over the last 20 years, while stocks of breeding tuna in the North Atlantic have declined by 80% over the past 30 years, according to the Commission. The World Conservation...
...Night and The Executioner's Song works daily on a long novel, though he won't say what it's about. He and his wife Norris Church share a big, brick house in Provincetown, Mass., on the tip of Cape Cod. Lumbering around the kitchen to fix you a tuna sandwich, he explains why Provincetown is a good place to concentrate: "Most of the people we knew up here are dead. We don't have to go out much...