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...deserves every accolade he gets,” says Akpan’s Oakridge coach, Jason Kern—and made his choice of Harvard over Duke, John Kerr could see elements of Eric Wynalda and Claudio Reyna in the young attacking midfielder. Kerr does not blush when he compares Akpan to recent luminaries of the Team USA program...
...Rabia Yalin is making her debut at New York's Fashion Week, alongside such industry heavyweights as Donna Karan and Nicole Miller, at a Feb. 9 fund raiser called Designers for Darfur. The Istanbul-based designer dresses modestly in public in accordance with Islamic tradition. And at first blush, her gowns seem similarly demure, but with the slip of a button, they become more than a little provocative, as shown at left. "In private, clothing should reflect a woman's sensuality," Yalin says. But her goal in public is "to show the beauty of the flower, while covering...
...Bangkok, you rarely see decolletage or muffin-tops, those rolls of flesh that peek out between hip-huggers and shrunken tank-tops. But then you turn a corner and a clutch of women gyrate in front of a bar in costumes that would make a Hooter's waitress blush. Cassius the schnauzer is the only one who doesn't notice...
...analysis grounded in that little mental state known as “reality,” however, needs to come to the inevitable conclusion that the West is not witnessing a rebirth but a profoundly shocking collapse. At first blush this sounds overly dramatic. It is certainly much more pessimistic than anything featured in the HPR’s “Future of the West,” but it is the only reasonable conclusion one can reach from looking at the relevant demographics...
...Still, Benedict's two prepared remarks in the Turkish capital - at first blush, at least - seemed so careful as to make one wonder if the famous hard-liner was going soft. After years of quietly, and then not-so-quietly, differentiating his approach to interfaith relations from Pope John Paul II's, the German Pope was sounding a lot like his predecessor. During Benedict's speech alongside Turkey's head of religious affairs Ali Bardakoglu, the Pope cited "mutual respect and esteem," "human and spiritual unity" and the common heritage of Islam and Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked...