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...couldn’t concentrate. These disturbing recollections haunted me as I sat in several fashion shows, wondering why we were bringing this particular trend back. The large sleeves of 2007 are not necessarily Victorian in nature. Sometimes they reflect late sixties movies where Doris Day tries to pretend Rock Hudson is not gay. This year’s big sleeves also reflect the butterfly kaftans that dominated parties in the early seventies where everyone had sex with everyone else’s husband and listened to Donna Summer while they did it. Pair this trend with something narrow...
Ishmael Beahdoesn't realize it, but he's about to become a rock star. Well, the literary-humanitarian equivalent of a rock star. (I'll eat my hat if he does not meet Bono in the next 12 months.) Beah, 26, slight and handsome with a ready but wary smile, has written a memoir, and it's a doozy. Separated from his parents at 12 when rebel soldiers attacked his Sierra Leonean village, by 13 he was a child soldier and a drug addict. By 19 he was living in the U.S., at Oberlin College, in Ohio. In February...
That was then. Of late, opinion on corruption has changed, as campaigners such as rock star Bono, joined by businesses and governments, have argued that corruption is a key cause of Africa 's underdevelopment and makes a mockery of international competition for contracts. In part, that is because business leaders in the old rich countries fear new competition. At a conference on business corruption in Paris last December, executives from France - no strangers to business-ethics scandals themselves - complained that they were losing out in Africa to Chinese firms that were less legally and morally encumbered...
...made improving student life a top priority when she became dean in 2003—announced that she would continue to work to remedy the problem. “I can promise to treat this matter as a key priority and to ensure that our staff turns over every rock and explores every avenue to make grade-viewing online work appropriately,” she wrote. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...that we let the stars of country into our communal Crimson heart. Instead of listening to the insipid independent rock of Beck—how I hate him—or the philistine shouting of “Them Franchise Boys” at your parties, embrace the take-no-prisoners drawl of Tim McGraw. He’s more rugged, more direct and not nearly so French...