Word: learnedness
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WHEN DESIGNER Ivana Omazic, 32, decided to leave home in the former Yugoslavia to study fashion in Milan, it was a very emotional decision. ?The war made it very difficult to leave my family,? she says. But she had known since age 5 that clothes would be her...
THERE IS AN APPROPRIATE SEASON to wear a fur coat and, as Gilles Mendel learned, an appropriate moment to open a fur-coat salon. Mendel chose the wrong moment. In 1870 in Paris, Mendel's great-great-grandfather launched a line of furs prized by Russian aristocracy. But in 1995...
Being charged with conspiring to aid overseas jihadists normally wouldn't be good news--unless you've been in isolation for three years with no charges to fight. But when Jose Padilla learned last week that he had been indicted, "he was extremely happy," his attorney Andrew Patel told TIME...
To the arbiters of art, comics had plenty of handicaps: they were disposable, popular, American and, worst of all, funny. Comics art got into museums only when reflected in the work of a "real" artist like Roy Lichtenstein. "I have all sorts of issues with the idea that a Lichtenstein...
Legacy of a Legend At a school function, I learned of the death of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery...