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...Right now our factories look like Betsy Ross's flag shop," says Howard Beige, executive vice president of Rubie's Costume, a Queens, N.Y., company, which supplies such giant retailers as K Mart, Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us. Rubie's had expected kids to demand Harry Potter and SpongeBob Squarepants. But a week after the attacks, the company stocked up on red, white and blue material and set its 1,500 seamstresses working overtime to fashion fire-fighter and soldier costumes for the boys and USA Teen Cheerleader outfits for their sisters...
...spring of 1965, when serious U.S. involvement in Vietnam had been building for more than a year, Howard Zinn addressed an antiwar rally in Boston's Copley Square. "We had maybe 100 people," says Zinn, an emeritus historian at Boston University. Two weeks ago, he found himself in Copley Square again, speaking this time before a crowd gathered to oppose any U.S. military response to the terrorism of Sept. 11. And this time, though it was only a few days after George W. Bush first uttered the words "act of war," more than a thousand people had turned...
...price of celebrity. Constant exposure is just part of the game. “Truthfully,” Magliozzi says, “this is the first crushing paparazzi moment of my life.” Magliozzi, a fan of Boston’s Jammin’ 94.5 and Howard Stern, was quite surprised to hear that his dad was even that well known. “People do tend to ask me a lot about cars,” says the young Magliozzi, adding, “[they] assume that I know a lot about cars which is unfortunately...
...anguished New Yorkers who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center, Howard Lutnick was perhaps the hardest to watch on TV, especially for anyone who has ever known responsibility for a lot of people. Lutnick, 40, is CEO of the bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which appears to have lost as many as 700 of its 1,000 Trade Center employees, those who were at work last Tuesday between the 101st and 105th floors of the north tower--just 10 floors above where the hijacked jet plowed in and exploded...
...Tutors have recommended that students go to UHS more often, but there hasn’t been a huge difference,” says Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’67-’68. “Lots of people in the House have been very helpful, and students have been using those people...