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...caller from Cabot Library reported that her bag had been stolen. The caller said she saw a 20-year-old, 5' 10" black male wearing a grey jacket or sweatshirt, possibly with a goatee, in the area. The bag was later recovered in the stacks, but without the victim's wallet...
...world of T shirts, they're cheap in the scheme of things, because they're versatile," says Kal Ruttenstein, fashion director at Bloomingdale's, which has seen T-shirt sales jump significantly over the past six months. "They can be worn with jeans or under a $1,000 jacket, and they've replaced blouses and sweaters for the office. We're not talking about undershirts here." Part of their appeal, however, is exactly those qualities they share with their proletarian cousins: they travel well, rarely wrinkle, fit comfortably and, not incidentally, are machine washable...
...education, or Bildungsroman. I suppose it is possible to retain this tradition by writing the autobiography of a life parked before a computer screen. But how much flavor would be missing without the scene of the hero walking across campus alone on a winter night, his head uncovered, his jacket collar drawn tight about his neck, alone, hearing a violin play You'll Never Walk Alone in a practice room somewhere, alone, in the snow that turns to rain...
DIED. EDWARD GOREY, 75, author and illustrator of more than 100 morbidly funny books; of a heart attack; in Yarmouth Port, Mass. A former book-jacket designer, he created such macabre classics as The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book in which A stands for "Amy who fell down the stairs." Though not a recluse, Gorey avoided the limelight (he declined a 1980 Tony Award for his gothic Dracula set design). Despite plaudits from critics such as Edmund Wilson, Gorey said that to take his work seriously would be "the height of folly...
...tastes like burning. Yet deep inside I long to sleep around, to kick some ass, to release my first rap album. As I saw it, I had little choice but to score some of that testosterone gel when it comes out this summer. I could keep it in my jacket pocket for emergency situations, next to my lip balm and antibacterial hand gel. I'm thinking about marketing this as a first-aid kit for wusses...