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...letter carrier from Portland, Ore., named Murr Brewster, whose folksy commentary on low-rise jeans and other fashion trends won in "Style+Beauty+Body." (An excerpt: "rolling cumulonimbus mounds of flesh were thundering out of pants all over town. Everywhere I looked, girls were celebrating physiques of the sort that once ignited the muumuu industry.") The announcement of her October win coincided with her retirement from her post-office job. "This has been a very good week," she said. "I'm now writing a book about my life in the postal service, called 'Miss Delivery...
...about the effectiveness of U.K. banking regulation. Then came a damaging political storm over the taxing of "non-doms" - wealthy foreigners who move to Britain and are taxed only on their U.K. income. Following last month's rescues of HBOS and Bradford & Bingley, the big question now is what sort of new regulatory measures will be put in place as a result of the current market meltdown. Fraser, the City's policy head, is hoping that any changes will be peripheral. "We'd be in much greater danger if financial services accounted for just 3% of the economy," he says...
...that the dinner would indeed be held Thursday night. “Well, anyways. You have a boyfriend. Good for you,” she added, beginning to pant as the elliptical ascended to level 6. “I just have [pant] absolutely no [pant] time for that sort of thing, you know? [pant] A relationship is like an extracurricular activity and I’ve got plenty [pant] plenty of those.” “I’m taking five classes and writing a thesis,” Maxwell fired back in one breath...
...showed that men traded more aggressively and more stupidly than women. They traded more, they lost more money. And I was always beating up on that in my class, because I thought, well, it could be cultural, it could be gender, it could be something else. But this, I sort of believe this. I think it would be misleading to try and say it’s related to the financial crisis, because that’s more about institutional fallibility. I don’t think we would have had a much better outcome if we had given guys...
...Cambridge resident, was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy last year after he had come back from reporting in Iraq. He called his return “jarring,” stating that Cambridge is “sort of all the things that Baghdad is not.” Aided by a slide show of photographs, Filkins spoke of being in Afghanistan before the NATO invasion, until he was arrested and expelled in the summer of 2000, and later, of shadowing a marine battalion during the invasion of Iraq...