There’s the minimum wage, but what about the minimum weight? Spain is now enforcing a health standard for models during Fashion Week – if they’re 5’9”, they must weigh at least 125 lbs. Should New York’s fashion industry do the same thing? And why super-skinny is super “in.” Plus, a new theory of national stability – The J Curve; what happened to the transit cuts? And does Mexico have two presidents?
Transit Talk
Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign
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Nicole Gelinas, contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute's City Journal
- on possible MTA fare hikes and service cuts
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Nicole Gelinas, contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute's City Journal
- on possible MTA fare hikes and service cuts
The Skinny On Fashion
Meghan Daum, Los Angeles Times columnist, and contributor to Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women (Washington Square Press, 2005)
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Laird Borrelli, senior features editor, Style.com, and author Fashion Illustration Next (Thames and Hudson, 2004) Net Mode: Web Fashion Now (Thames & Hudson, ...
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Laird Borrelli, senior features editor, Style.com, and author Fashion Illustration Next (Thames and Hudson, 2004) Net Mode: Web Fashion Now (Thames & Hudson, ...
J School
Ian Bremmer, president, Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy and author, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
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Jim Hoge, Editor of Foreign Affairs
- offer a new way to analyze a country's stability , as ...
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Jim Hoge, Editor of Foreign Affairs
- offer a new way to analyze a country's stability , as ...
Mexico Dividido?
Sarah Llana, Mexico City and Latin America bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor
- talks about the current political situation in Mexico
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- talks about the current political situation in Mexico
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Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall", discusses ...