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...tailors who also make custom clothing in their shops, the alteration game is a savior. Joyce Hittesdorf, president of the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, who runs her own small business in Carmel, Ind., has picked up about eight new clients over the past month. "They were all looking to salvage what they had," she says. "Alterations were the secondary part of our business. Now they're more primary." At Imparali Custom Tailors in New York City, new custom-suit sales fell about 20% in 2008, while revenues from fix-up jobs jumped 30%. Matt Harpalani, the shop...
...interview in 2008. The Secret Service—best known for defending key government figures—is also charged with investigating major cases of fraud. Donovon said that Reed was put on the Secret Service’s Most Wanted List—a group of eight fugitives—in December 2007. Reed had also attempted to adopt the identity of Bowman ’99, who later graduated from Columbia Medical School. Natalie M. Bowman ’99 could not be reached for comment yesterday. Ann Fitz, one of Reed’s attorneys, said...
...streets just full of people. White people, black people, mixed-race people, all jumbled up together and walking. Music right on the sidewalk...a whole band and drum set and everything, like the whole city is a big party. I'm looking out the window, eyes big as saucers - eight years old - and I'm thinking, this is a whole different way to be a Negro; I'm thinking, this is where Daddy gets his groove." (See the special report on "Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later...
...artifacts now being recovered were stolen from the Baghdad museum after its infamous looting in 2003. The tablets found in Peru, for example, were taken from an open archeological site in southern Iraq, one of eight such areas museum officials say remain vulnerable to looters even now. Edan estimates that Iraqi authorities have managed to retrieve as many as 17,000 artifacts lifted from the open sites, in addition to roughly 4,700 pieces taken from the museum when it was sacked...
Egypt's attorney general cited "medical reasons" for Nour's release even though Egyptian courts had repeatedly denied Nour's request for a pardon on those grounds. Many see politics behind the decision. Mubarak, 80, wants to improve relations with the new Obama administration, following eight years of cold relations with the Bush administration that were frosty in part due to Nour's imprisonment. "Does Mubarak want to risk another four years of bad relations with the United States? I don't think so," says Hesham Kassem, former deputy leader of Nour's liberal, secular al-Ghad party. "If [Nour...