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...fact, high school stuff might not be such a great idea, after all. At Harvard, you have the opportunity to be someone completely new. That varsity football letter jacket might be hard to explain if you come here and decide you want to join, say, the Society of Nerds and Geeks...
Suddenly he appears, shadowed by a bodyguard with a cobra stenciled on his jacket. Koernke is a big man; he looks like the butcher's boy grown up. His voice is high and reedy, but it has come to represent the truth. He is introduced, and acknowledges the ensuing ovation. And then the darling of the militia movement gives his little half-smirk and begins: "Ladies and gentlemen, we just came back from Palm Springs, where the disinformation flowed like water, trust...
Everyone jumped when one round tore in, smashed into some communications gear and bounced harmlessly off the back of Castro's flak jacket. The Marine behind him handed the sergeant major a 7.62-mm slug. Castro handed it back with a smile. It was, he said, "no big deal...
...showrooms of Seventh Avenue or SoHo. Magazine editors -- powerful tastemakers with impeccable taste -- survey the racks of samples from the designer's newest line. They make their choices -- the Calvin Kleins for the summer spread; the Gianni Versaces for the feature on The New Glamour. Then a jacket catches the editor's eye. She pulls it from the racks, fingers the rich fabric, tries it on, feels that familiar adrenaline rush...
...they are meant to be covering as journalists, earning up to $3,000 for a day's work. What lands in Vogue or Harper's Bazaar or Elle or any of the half a dozen key magazines, may be the finest clothing, the hippest new bag or belt or jacket; it may also be the goods peddled by the editor's friend or most important advertiser or sometime employer. "Something has shifted," says Holly Brubach, style editor of the New York Times Magazine. "Instead of the friendships being kept separate from work, these friendships have been brought into the professional...