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Bottega Veneta "The 1970s was the last time we saw logomania," says Tom Ford. "It was all about Gucci and Louis Vuitton and initials, initials, initials, and Gloria Vanderbilt jeans." Into this frenzied atmosphere Italian leather company Bottega Veneta was launched. Its smash hit was a bag of woven leather - a look inspired by woven baskets. There was no logo and the ads said it all: "When your own initials are enough." The first boutique opened in 1974 on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In 1980 when Lauren Hutton starred as a rich New York housewife in American Gigolo...
Granted many of the SAT-optional schools sit on utopian campuses in liberal New England villages. But it's getting hard to find an admissions officer anywhere who says an SAT score alone tells you anything important. Deans at prestigious, traditional bastions such as Vanderbilt support the SAT, but some of the test's assumed proponents aren't guarding it against the barbarians. Even conservatives at the Weekly Standard have written about how the SAT has "shaped--and misshaped--modern American life...
...HUPD units were dispatched to Vanderbilt Hall on the report of a disturbance. Officers found the cause of the disturbance to be a dispute about the usage of a squash court, which the officers settled...
...Granted many of the SAT-optional schools sit on utopian campuses in liberal New England villages. But it's getting hard to find an admissions officer anywhere who says an SAT score alone tells you anything important. Deans at prestigious, traditional bastions such as Vanderbilt support the SAT, but some of the test's assumed proponents aren't guarding it against the barbarians. Even conservatives at the Weekly Standard have written about how the SAT has "shaped - and misshaped - modern American life...
...major disparities that emerged from the results: The death rate for cardiac arrests rose three times faster in young women than in young men, and rose 19 percent among blacks versus 14 percent among whites. Professor Rose Marie Robertson, director of the Women's Heart Institute at Vanderbilt University and president of the American Heart Association, talked to TIME.com about what the study means - and what can be done to reverse this trend...