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After a year of rehabilitation at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Braddock is driving his Jeep Wrangler home this week to Vancouver, Wash., to see his mom, play tabletop war games with his buddies and try to get out of the Guard--not to leave the military but to join the Army. He wants to go back to Iraq, never mind the missing leg. After all, with its high-tech Renegade foot, his new one has made him faster and funnier. Why test fate a second time? Because he loves the military, loves guns and loved...
...Pancho, the rising profitability of human smuggling is proving too tempting. He used to work as an enganchador, or wrangler, in Tuxpan, earning $200 for each would-be migrant he steered toward his friends who worked as coyotes, smuggling people across the Arizona border. Now, with the business plan for his greenhouses in disarray, he says he plans to move to Phoenix, Ariz., and work as a facilitator for the coyotes, watching over the newcomers and arranging bus or plane tickets for them to their final destination. Pancho estimates he could clear close to $1,000 a week. Working...
Much of the appeal of such clothing is that each item reflects the caring hand of its creator and has a unique story to tell. Professional designers understand that. Both Marc Jacobs and Prada have added handwrought cachet to their spring collections by embellishing them with crocheted elements. The Wrangler jeans company recently hired Wendy Mullin to design a new line called Wrangler 47. Mullin made her name as a downtown--New York City designer who created custom guitar straps for rock stars and then took her flair for making clothing and filled a whole store with hipster wear...
...case of one Harvard applicant I met while on vacation in Montana, trying to impose the affirmative action model is absurd. I arrive at our meeting wearing a herringbone grey jacket from Brooks Brothers and accompanying dress slacks (Harvard taking its toll?) and he in a flannel jacket, a Wrangler button-clasp shirt and tight boot-cut jeans. The applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really...
...worked as a seamster in a garment shop. By 19, he owned it. A workaholic of modest tastes, he began manufacturing jeans when Turkey started liberalizing its economy in the 1980s, capitalizing on top-quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this business and were ready to do it ourselves," he says. In 1991, Mavi, which means blue in Turkish, was born. It took some foresight to predict that jeans would take off in this mainly Muslim, albeit secular, country. Like Coke and rock 'n' roll...