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...site offers much more than major discounts - typically 30% to 70% off - on designer apparel, shoes, handbags, jewelry, sunglasses and other accessories from seasons past. For example, a $1,455 Rick Owens draped silk dress is marked down 40% on the site to $875, while a pair of Chloé patent leather sandals is 50% off, at $298. And there are similar bargains on offer from more than 200 brands ranging from 3.1 Phillip Lim to Burberry and Alexander McQueen...
Greyhound, Upgraded. Greyhound's 25 million passengers are about to get a brand-new bus - similar, the company says, to the models that celebrities tour in. The new commercial buses may not have champagne or beds with silk sheets in the back, but they do have free wi-fi, power outlets and, most importantly for anyone who's taken a bus, extra legroom. The first buses will be rolled out between New York City and Toronto or Montreal, then on the New York City-Boston route. Over the next few years, the entire fleet will be revamped...
...Sander white silk-and-acetate dress (Jil Sander, New York City...
...back to why trade is good for you. The idea that an exchange of what you have for what I have makes both of us better off must be as old as the first moment anyone swapped cowrie shells for some cooked fish. Organized trade is ancient: silk did not get to Rome because the Romans figured out sericulture; someone imported it from China. But it took until 1817, and the work of the British political economist David Ricardo, for anyone to cloak a theory around something that humans had been doing since time immemorial. Ricardo showed that if nations...
...solid interpretation of the character. The cast’s real weak link is its passive female romantic lead, Malin Akerman. Though the Swede’s delivery is mostly flawless, she at times seems bored or perhaps confused with her role as Laurie Jupiter, also known as Silk Spectre II. In her scenes of budding romance with Wilson’s Nite Owl, Silk Spectre II would benefit from an actress with a more charismatic presence, giving Wilson more maneuverability. His character’s gradual growth—overcoming social awkwardness, self-doubt, and even erectile dysfunction?...