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During his 45-year career, Saint Laurent changed everything about the way women exist in public life. He introduced them to a universe of color and dared them to adopt a male silhouette, revolutionizing the way men see women and women see themselves. To own a piece of art or an object collected by Saint Laurent, who helped define an aesthetic for the 20th century, gives new meaning to provenance...
...Some solutions to this crisis are obvious. President Barack Obama has publicly announced that he will adopt a shelter dog to be the First Pet—a noble example that will hopefully inspire others. Spaying and neutering have caught on across the country, though a quarter of dogs still slip outside the programs. Tighter regulations on puppy mills and animal laboratories would be a good first step to stopping needless suffering...
...Yang signaled that China was willing to work with the U.S. on trade, human rights and reducing carbon emissions. And Clinton's emphasis on discussion and consultation has thus far resonated with China. "I think in principal China wants the Obama administration to adopt a cooperative approach to dealings, rather than a confrontational approach," says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "They would like to begin talking about things on an equal footing...
...Alisjahbana's actual wartime employment in occupied Indonesia's language office - is put in charge of formalizing its grammar and syntax. In the novel (as it was in life), the office is a meeting place for nationalists who seize on Japan's defeat in 1945 to declare independence and adopt Bahasa Indonesia as the new nation's official tongue...
...former Harvard Extension School student who obtained admission through an adopted identity was sentenced to four years in prison earlier this week in a federal court in Greenville, S.C. Esther R. Reed—who sporadically attended Harvard between 2002 and 2005, according to the New York Post—was charged with stealing at least six identities and using such disguises to forge her way into the Extension School, Columbia, and California State University, Fullerton. A federal judge in Greenville characterized her as a scheming manipulative criminal, according to the Associated Press. Reed’s scam was unveiled...