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Until Dolly, that is. What Dolly proved is that you don't have to take your chances with fetal cells. You can wait until the litter has grown up, see which individuals have proved themselves to be great producers of wool, milk or--a stretch, perhaps--NBA titles, and then clone the champs...
Though he dines at the Palm and wears London-tailored Tasmanian-wool suits (at $1,500 a pop, each is paid for with about three hours of his billed legal time), Cacheris' homelife has always been more prosaic. He and his wife Ethel--they have been married nearly 43 years--frequently revisit his roots on trips to Greece. His father Christos had only a sixth-grade education, and as a teenager Plato flipped burgers at his dad's restaurants. After a stint in the Marines, straight-arrow Cacheris worked as a Justice Department prosecutor helping Attorney General Robert Kennedy target...
Since silk was being diverted to parachutes, weendured thick cotton lisle stockings instead ofsilk, unless we had a boyfriend who could buy ussilk stockings at the PX. Most of us opted forsaddle shoes and bobby sox. We wore genteelknee-length skirts, with tailored white blousesand baggy wool sweaters. Never were we allowed towear slacks to class unless there was a ragingblizzard outside...
What was once considered the craft of little old ladies sitting by the fireplace is now one of the hottest, most-spotted crafts around. Wool enthusiasts all over campus have been putting their needles to work for various amounts of time--some learned last Thanksgiving, while some were practically handed a skein at birth. But, even though spring is fast approaching, it's never too late to learn. Both our Square's own Woolcott and Co. and Porter Square's Mind's Eye Yarns gives lessons for all levels of talent. (Mind's Eye Yarns even gives wool-spinning lessons...
While Hariri says only "about four percent" of her wardrobe comes from J. Crew, Caroline C. Costin '01 says the wool sweaters, cardigans and pants she purchases from J. Crew grace about 75 percent of her closet and drawer space. Costin also shops from the Patagonia and Victoria's Secret catalogs...