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...famous multimillionaire really be a spokeswoman for the down-home art of making your own clothes? Stewart does, at least, understand the impulse driving so many young women to assert their individuality with one-of-a kind, homemade clothes. In 1961 Stewart was named one of Glamour's 10 Best Dressed College Girls. "One of the reasons I stood out," she recalls, "was because I sewed all my own clothes." Now that's an endorsement...
...Lawyers say that if Goodling were granted immunity in exchange for her testimony, it would most likely be so-called "use immunity" - meaning that none of her statements could be used to prosecute her for past crimes. That would mean she would no longer have any basis to assert her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to testify...
...that needs to be resolved soon. Each candidate was asked to propose the best and fastest way to conclude the United States’ involvement in Iraq. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) both stressed the need for Democrats to assert their power in the House and Senate. “I don’t think it’s acceptable to give the President more of a carte blanche than he’s already received,” Obama said. But while the candidates criticized President Bush, they...
...example to journalists and the public that the government has basically unlimited power to do what they want, and if you try to assert your human rights, your basic constitutional rights, which we should have under law, you will be punished unmercifully...
...first things I did while in prison is start an organization called Free The Media, which my Dad helped develop the website for. Basically, it's a web 2.0 interactive environment where people can collectively brainstorm and work towards developing campaigns to help assert the rights of the media against both governmental and corporate pressures and influences. [PrisonBlogs.net is another project where prisoners] will write to a central p.o. box to obtain a sponsor, then their sponsor will write to them and let them know, 'Here's my address, and you can send me letters or art [for posting].' This...