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...street wear," says the curator of an exhibit of about 200 engravings, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs (from Ralph Lauren ads to Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique) opening at the New York Public Library this month. "A Rakish History of Men's Wear" surveys the factors???sumptuary laws, chivalrous codes, spiritual and marital values, dandyism and a bourgeois middle class?that helped men's style evolve from antiquity to today...
...servings of fruits and vegetables a day, consume fish once or twice a week and cut down on the amount of trans and saturated fat in your diet. The effects appear to be cumulative. A study published in August found that folks with three or more major cardiovascular risk factors???for example, hypertension, diabetes and current smoking?were more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as well...
...ways to do that. Whether it's a naked doll [for David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim] or a dinosaur on [Michael Crichton's] Jurassic Park, it has to have a visceral appeal and in its own way be appropriate to the title. There are many factors???chiefly, whether it's a good book. I designed the cover for my own novel [The Cheese Monkeys; 2001], and it didn't become a huge best seller. If I can't do it for myself, I can't do it for someone else...
...Many factors???earnings, accounting practices, taxes?discourage companies, often forcefully, from pressuring OPEC to hold down prices. That is something that the companies once managed with ease, but now no longer have much power to accomplish. Yet if they tried, they would be harming their own interests. The Sisters hold concessions in non-OPEC areas, like the British and Norwegian North Sea and Canada. Every time the cartel jabs up the price, up goes the value of the companies' holdings as well...
Motivated primarily by genuine compassion for Nixon, Ford took a superficial look at the other factors???the legal ramifications, the political impact, the public reaction?and failed to think them through. Buoyed by his Honeymoon reception and seeking a Trumanesque reputation for decisiveness, he acted immediately and impulsively on his determination to pardon Nixon. If eventually he was going to pardon him, as he had in effect indicated he would in his Aug. 28 press conference, then why not now? A diehard defender of Nixon's innocence until the ample contrary evidence became unchallengeable, Ford by this theory appreciated neither...
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