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...special-delivery package bulged with sportswear bearing fancy logos like Giorgio, Gucci, Nike and Louis Vuitton. A chic boutique? No, the recipient was the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women in Los Angeles. And the merchandise was $1 million worth of counterfeit name-brand T shirts, sweat shirts and running suits seized by lawmen in a sting operation last December. Instead of destroying the phony duds, city attorney James K. Hahn launched an unusual salvage operation.With the O.K. of firms whose names were pirated, the city divided the 43,000 items among eight community-service organizations. "Come winter those things...
...under the new system, Weingarten said, "instead of seeing people that are bored and restless, I'm seeing people who have broken into a sweat from running [to make their appointments...
Melia Tabono lies semiconscious on a cot, her swollen face glistening with sweat and sand. An intravenous tube drips saline solution into her veins, as a friend, Thelma Nonatura, a fellow Filipino, desperately fans a piece of cardboard to combat the 95 degrees heat. Six weeks ago, Tabono, 38, worked as a seamstress in Kuwait City. Now she is among tens of thousands of refugees struggling to survive in a strip of scorched desert between Iraq and Jordan. "Our lives have been destroyed," murmurs Nonatura. "I can't feel anything anymore...
Take, for instance, William D. Cole, a grad student who is the head teaching fellow for a popular core course. Framed by the doorway of Boylston, he wears a 100 percent cotton "Harvard Bridge" tee-shirt. His gray shorts and sweat socks with blue stripes match impeccably. The white leather tennis shoes with gray trim add a perfect final touch...
...rich all dressed in fancy black tie and gown for dinner every night while the poor were starving in the street. That's one thing Gorbachev and I agree on. He won't wear a black tie either. I don't go to functions where they wear dungarees and sweat shirts either. I just...