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...ponytail, says she was taken from an orphanage by an armed gang just after the U.S. invasion and sent to brothels in Samarra, al-Qaim on the border with Syria, and Mosul in the north before she was taken back to Baghdad, drugged with pills, dressed in a suicide belt and sent to bomb a cleric's office in Khadamiyah, where she turned herself in to the police. A judge gave her a seven-year jail sentence "for her sake" to protect her from the gang, according to the prison director...
CLAIM TO FAME Since co-founding the Small Planet Institute and Fund with her mother, author Frances Moore Lappé, the Brooklyn resident has been raising money for environmental organizations around the world, like a quarter of a million dollars for Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 30 million trees since 1977. As a Food and Society Policy fellow at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, she travels the country educating Americans about the connection between food policy and public health...
...BELT PREVAILS IN YOUR ACCESSORIES COLLECTION. WHAT WAS YOUR INSPIRATION? If you've got a waist, flaunt it. It gives the body a focus and creates proportion. I'm looking at accessories as important pieces. They carry an outfit, so they need to have their own life and character to reflect today's women's needs. We have it all in our accessories line?everyday pieces reflected by their price, as well as more sophisticated evening pieces...
...Super Sweet 16. The show documents the excesses of privileged youths commemorating the mighty achievement of making it through their 16th year. Shell-shocked parents--always uttering the mantra "It was worth it"--typically peel off checks for upwards of $200,000. We learn that from the Sun Belt to Erie, Pa., the lack of taste knows no ethnic, religious or cultural bounds. You give teenagers $200,000, and they will spend it exactly as you would expect. The parties are the aesthetic equivalent of Hilary Duff MP3s...
...shortstop Scott Graham on a 2-2 fastball that he left up, Haviland came out as the unfortunate loser. “You’ve got to keep the ball down against these guys,” Haviland said. “I mean, anyone can hit a belt-high fastball.” For six innings, Haviland was nearly perfect, allowing three hits and no walks. He threw early strikes and spotted a gravity-defying breaking ball—“The best curveball I’ve had in awhile,” he said?...