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...Miguel Adrover's show, sponsored by UPS, a guy dressed as one of the company's delivery men suddenly appeared on the runway toting a huge box covered with UPS stickers. At Rosa Cha, Brazilian bikinis were accessorized with birth-control patches, courtesy of Ortho Evra. The designers for the collective called As Four emerged on the catwalk smoking. Their sponsor was Legal Cigarettes...
When the compiler of hospital birth-certificates, Mr. Wilcox, suggests naming “him after yourself, or one of your ancestors,” the parents are horrified. “This tradition doesn’t exist for Bengalis…this sign of respect in America and Europe…would be ridiculed in India...
...chance that many Europeans see February 15, 2003—the day when millions of antiwar demonstrators engulfed virtually every large city in Europe—as the birth date of something akin to a European nation. There is no way to tell whether this sentiment will endure, but active opposition to the U.S. has clearly given Europeans a common bond that they can experience on an emotional level...
...Manish Jha is no such equivocator. In A Nation Without Women (which won the critics' award at the recent Venice Film Festival), he exposes the social horror of India's antifemale birth policy from the first scene. A woman goes into labor; her husband paces anxiously; a baby's cry is heard. "It's a girl," the man is told; he takes the infant, drowns it in a well and apostrophizes, "Next year...
...RETIRED. Jaime Cardinal Sin, 75, Archbishop of Manila, whose call for Filipinos to defy former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos started the People Power revolution of 1986; in Manila. In the predominantly Catholic archipelago, Sin wielded enormous influence on such issues as government support for birth control, which he opposes. But the height of his power came in 1986-and again in January 2001, when Sin encouraged a second such public demonstration, which forced President Joseph Estrada from office. The ailing Sin, who suffered a mild stroke this past March, cloaked determination with a puckish sense of humor, greeting visitors...