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...boundaries. It's a company that is both revered by design aficionados and beloved by housewives; its creations are worn by the slim and the not so slim, and its snazzy signature prints are available on everything from onesies to pot holders. It's possible that Marimekko even helped usher in the Camelot era when a style-savvy Jackie Kennedy traded in her haute couture for one of the company's inexpensive summer frocks, which she wore to be photographed with her husband for a December 1960 cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. In her breezy dress, Kennedy personified an elegant ease...
...droves. Just as important as the event’s content and pub has been the timing: Instead of being held on a weekend afternoon, Yardfest 2008 will happen on a Friday night. A far more popular time slot for a concert event, it offers a chance to usher in the weekend on a notable high. Simply put, Yardfest will be hard to miss. The CEB’s endeavours to revive the annual Yardfest and by proxy, the social scene at Harvard, are both quite commendable and realistic. The dedication and fervor with which the new CEB has taken...
...Such sentiments are the reason Taiwan's March 22 presidential election is potentially one of the most important East Asia has seen in recent memory. A Ma victory could usher in a sea change in the tense relationship between China and Taiwan. In 1949 Mao Zedong's communists chased Chiang Kai-shek's KMT from the mainland after a brutal civil war, and ever since the two have glared icily at each other across the narrow but heavily armed strait that separates them. Beijing considers Taiwan to be no more than a wayward province destined to be reunified under communist...
...industry types, Norman Smith was better known as the longtime engineer, or technician in chief, for the Beatles. Smith, nicknamed "Normal" by John Lennon, worked with producer George Martin on every Beatles recording through 1965's Rubber Soul. Later, as a producer, Smith helped usher in the psychedelic era by discovering and signing Pink Floyd after watching their trippy act at London's UFO club...
HUDS has made additions in the past week that added costs, “but not too much,” Mayer said, adding that the beginning of the spring menu on Wednesday will usher in Monday-night Shanghai lettuce wraps and a recurring make-your-own-pudding...