Hodge began thinking about the parallels between the disciplines six years ago, when she organized an exhibition at Harvard of Rei Kawakubo's radically warped and distressed work for Comme des Garçons.
Before she entered the public eye in spectacular fashion on Sunday night, announcing that her charity had received calls from distressed staff working in Gordon Brown's office, most people had never heard of Christine Pratt.
But in Kelo v. City of New London, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially deleted that restriction to enable the government to take pretty much any property for pretty much any reason including the economic development of "distressed" (read: working class) communities.
After Stacy died, Mikhailova's husband became too distressed to work.
So when a financially distressed borrower worked out a new mortgage with a lender that essentially reduced the borrower's debt by $30,000, for example, the borrower was required to include that amount as taxable income on his or her tax return.
Drive up to the distressed white barns, working windmill and acres of green farmland and all of a sudden you're inside a Wyeth painting.
Hugh T. Patrick, director of Columbia University's Center on Japanese Economy and Business, said that with representatives of the Tokyo operations of Goldman ,Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter saying here that they were interested in working on distressed debt, the government should use private incentives and market forces to clear away the bad debt.
The agenda will also give young founders who are working in "distressed communities" or providing "measurable social impact and benefit" the chance to have up to $17,500 of their student loan debt forgiven after running their business for five years.
Ms. Choi previously served as an advocate for children through Bridge of Hope San Diego, a non-profit organization dedicated to working with distressed families to help them through difficult transitions.
