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...kind of blighted, unemployment-racked French suburban housing projects that erupted in riots last year. In addition to being one of the brightest lights to have come from the banlieues, Koné is trying to change the system. Without the massive capital and worldwide production resources that the older brands such as Nike and Adidas possess, Koné has used the Airness allure to handpick partners licensed to produce the brand's sportswear - often with stiff conditions. All Airness clothes, for example, must be produced in France to satisfy quality requirements, and firms must have the ability to adapt design...
...older that kids are, the more they may need this protected time together, but the less likely they are to get it. Although a majority of 12-year-olds in the CASA study said they had dinner with a parent seven nights a week, only a quarter of 17-year-olds did. Researchers have found all kinds of intriguing educational and ethnic patterns. The families with the least educated parents, for example, eat together the most; parents with less than a high school education share more meals with their kids than do parents with high school diplomas or college degrees...
When parents say their older kids are too busy or resistant to come to the table the way they did when they were 7, the dinner evangelists produce evidence to the contrary. The CASA study found that a majority of teens who ate three or fewer meals a week with their families wished they did so more often. Parents sometimes seem a little too eager to be rejected by their teenage sons and daughters, suggests Miriam Weinstein, a freelance journalist who wrote The Surprising Power of Family Meals. "We've sold ourselves on the idea that teenagers are obviously sick...
...frequently criticized as ugly, dehumanized, at war with instead of building on Harvard’s architectural past. But the contemporaneity, style, and spirit of the new buildings also won them wide acceptance.” Despite the overcrowding, some alums expressed nostalgia for Harvard’s older, neo-Georgian style, with its ivy-covered bricks. “I would have rather been a freshman and upperclassman in the Houses with nice pseudo-Georgian atmospheres than in a campus that looks like a moonscape at the University of Texas,” Landau says. Invoking the architecture maxim...
...able to write in four pages,” Cronin says. “She wrote so fast and was just as thoughtful.”DOUBLE JUBILEEAs a result of the interactions Whitman had been used to, she says she “veered towards guys who were older.” On the particular night of a “Jolly-up”—smoky Radcliffe mixers with lax alcohol rules—two graduate students decided to celebrate the completion of their oral exams by doing something mindless: getting jollied...