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...fray. After he showed a delicious meze of Middle Eastern--and African-inspired silhouettes in September 2001, two days before the Twin Towers fell, he says he was accused by the tabloids of sympathizing with the enemy. "No one says anything about [designers such as] Michael Kors except 'Great skirt,'" Adrover says. "We have great skirts too. For us they say, 'Maybe there's a Taliban connection.'" To make matters worse, the Leiber Group, the luxury-apparel conglomerate that had acquired Adrover in April 2000, withdrew its backing in early October...
...ever received any pecuniary reward or its equivalent by reason of his connection with athletics--whether for playing, coaching or acting as teacher in any branch of sport or engaging therein in any capacity--shall represent his University in any athletic team or crew, except that any University Committee on Eligibility may, subject to the approval of the Committee of the Three Chairmen, permit such participation in intercollegiate athletics by men who might technically be debarred under the letter of the rule, but, who, in the judgment of the University Committee on Eligibility have not commercialized their athletic ability...
...studied” in the rooms of everyone I know, in front of numerous movies, at every cafe in Cambridge and with many drinks in my hand. Last semester I relented and went to Cabot Library, which is such an ugly cement hole that there is nothing to do except study. (There, I sunk to new a low and read a book about the mating patterns of the Giant Albatross...
...fact, among the 15 people GSE lists with gender studies as a research interest, not one is currently a full professor except for GSE Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann herself...
...Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers when the village chief threatens to punish him for playing a Mozart tune. Quick-witted Luo saves the day by explaining that the name of the song is "Mozart Is Always Thinking of Chairman...