Fashion Sense and Sensibility

Despite the tendency to “go big or go home” on the runways of New York’s Fall Fashion Week, it’s important to keep things in perspective. At least designers weren’t insisting we accessorize with a live snake or a headdress made out of bubble wrap. This time.

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The Feminine Mystique

Go find a cardboard box. It can be square or rectangular. Then, grab a piece of paper (newspaper, wrapping paper, tissue paper, doesn’t matter). Wrap the box. Even those who, during the holiday wrapping bonanza, invariably find themselves covered in little scraps and pieces of tape—not to mention the proud giver of a misshapen, lumpy gift—will agree this is (conceptually) a fairly easy task.

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Open House

Home prices plummeting. Foreclosures rising. Mortgages defaulting. Banks collapsing. New construction slowing. Loans vanishing. Credit nonexistent. Financial apocalypse imminent.

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The Little Emblem That Could

It’s not always the biggest or the strongest that comes out on top, at least, if children’s books, films with pat resolutions or Underdog can be believed. Small is subtle. It quietly

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