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...parts Jasmine Sola + three quarters Cardullos = well rounded college town. Each store in the square seems to fill a particular quota, and is self-conscious of its role. You, dress the frat boys; you there, feed the yuppies; and you, exist for the sole purpose of peddling to tweed-jacket clad alums come Reunion Week. Ever notice how some stores seem to stick around for no imaginable reason? Who really shops at Serendipity, anyway? Unless, of course, it’s for the linen-wearing, Birkenstock-shod, trust-fund-enabled sector of the population. No wonder Harvard Square sometimes feels...
...much more horse country than the Michael Kors Fall 2001 collection, the epitome of the much discussed "equestrian look": tight, jodhpur-inspired stretch pants tucked in to knee-high boots and topped with a diamond-patterned sweater reminiscent of a jockey's uniform, or a tweed hacking jacket like the one pictured here. Manifest in capes, suede pants, scarves and handbags that beg to be thrown over a saddle, the look has found its way into the collections of DKNY, Miguel Adrover, Jill Stuart (who has added girlie frills) and, of course, Ralph Lauren, who has made a whole career...
Large-scale excursions, like Simonson's current 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition (they are searching for further evidence of exploits of the men in tweed), take along laptops, satellite phones and solar-power generators. And a technology specialist: it's his job to handle video and stills editing and encoding with a Panasonic Toughbook (a bomb-resistant little unit with a waterproof keyboard, a magnesium-alloy case and a shock-mounted hard drive). When that's done, he transmits the content via the group's satellite phones to the website team in Seattle that posts it on the site. Going...
...arrived at the Houghton library slightly early; and was pleasantly surprised by the sizeable—if predominantly tweed-jacketed and elderly—audience. The polished and antique feel of the exhibition room seemed an appropriate setting. I settled into my seat, struck by the spring sun, smugly secure in my own Englishness...
...word pundit brings to mind an image of a pipe-smoking, tweed-jacketed know-it-all who is fond of quoting Dean Acheson, then you will be delighted--and relieved--by the freshness of the reporters and opinion makers you will meet on Take 5, a new talk show on CNN that will include a rotating cast of four TIME journalists. "We wanted a show that had the vitality and perspective of newer reporters," says Lucy Spiegel, the show's executive producer. "A lot of people came to our attention who were not covering their sixth or seventh presidential election...