Word: 60th
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...been a year of major fashion anniversaries, what with Valentino celebrating 45 years in business last summer in Rome, and the house of Dior feting their 60th the same week at Versailles. But last night Ralph Lauren topped them all with his elegant and spectacular 40th-anniversary show and black tie dinner in Central Park's Conservancy garden. To the strains of the score of My Fair Lady, guests - over 400 of them - floated down the garden stairs into a pristine white tent edged in crisp black. The structure could have been a harbinger of Lauren's Spring 2008 show...
...What may be most revealing about the moment is that on the 60th anniversary of India's independence, many see Gandhi's sacrifice in pursuit of communal harmony as more moving than the triumph of expelling the British. Poverty and communal tensions still trouble India, and cloud its future. As the country's economy booms, hundreds of millions like those gathered around Gandhi's humble dwelling are on the outside looking in. It's reported that on August 15, 1947, West Bengal's newly appointed administrators came to the Mahatma in Beliaghata to seek his blessings. He responded ominously. "Today...
...must learn to be good neighbors. And I'm optimistic. People cannot be foolish forever.' I.A. REHMAN, Pakistani human-rights activist, on the relations between India and Pakistan as his country celebrates its 60th year of independence...
...REHMAN, a Pakistani human-rights activist, on the relations between India and Pakistan as his country celebrates its 60th year of independence...
Celebrating Pakistan's 60th anniversary...