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...Stressed or Just Spoiled? "Spa kids" reported that "massages and facials are now in vogue with the younger set" [July 21]. Meanwhile, the U.S. Census Bureau states that 16.3% of American children live in poverty. The teens patronizing day spas would be better off if they devoted their time to helping their less fortunate peers. Maybe then they would realize that by comparison, they have little to be stressed over. Perhaps it would provide some perspective for their parents, too. Patricia J. Williams Cary...
Kelman said he had known Kerry’s younger brother when they were both Harvard undergraduates...
Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...
...endeavor that has rocked Japan's fashion scene. Last year, the icon of Japanese haute expression, Yohji Yamamoto, joined forces with Adidas to sell a new line of sportswear, tagged Y-3. This month, Puma will showcase its latest sneaker collaboration with Yasuhiro Mihara, Japan's version of a younger, spikier Manolo Blahnik. Ironically, the decision of these high-fashion designers to come down from their ateliers and mix with the skateboard set is less their own than the imperative of the one sector of Japan's lackluster economy that's still spending: the nation's youngsters. "Like...
...Edges. But even as he was earning accolades from the jet set, Takizawa says he was drawing his truest inspiration from a little swatch of antique denim fashioned during California's Gold Rush. "For people of my generation in Japan, denim represented freedom and individuality," says Takizawa. With more younger buyers crowding his store, Takizawa decided it was time to debut this most plebeian of fabrics on the runway. The loosely tailored jeans that resulted from his collaboration with Lee are meant to go equally well with an Issey Miyake blouse or a no-brand T shirt...