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...Then, in early April, she wore a $298 J. Crew cream hand-beaded cardigan, with a $158 "dazzling dots" pencil skirt, on a visit to a London cancer center with Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The photos shot around the globe. The cardigan sold out on J. Crew's website by 10 a.m. E.T. the same day. Two days later, it was selling for $600 on eBay. The wait-list for the cardigan at J. Crew exceeds 200. "I feel like I'm getting a present every day," says Jenna Lyons, creative director for J. Crew...
...That's according to the mission statement of the blogger Legofesto, who's amazingly found a way to use LEGO - the stackable, clickable, infinitely malleable children's toys - to tell the story of Guantanamo Bay detainees, prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, British bank instability, and civilian deaths in the Iraq War. Legofesto, a blogger located in the United Kingdom, won't reveal her identity, but her politics are clear. According to the profile on her blog, she's "a politics-junkie and news-hound, with a obsession for lego and other construction toys ... She is very, very pissed...
...territory: Sri Lankan Army soldiers posing on duty, and desperate civilians seeking their help. The enemy is all but invisible, reinforcing the Sri Lankan government's position that its conflict with the LTTE isn't a conventional war at all, but what Colombo calls a "war on terror." British foreign secretary David Miliband, in a speech to the house of commons on April 30, called it "a war without witness...
...agencies to enter the war zone to help them. On April 28, the government denied a visa to a Swedish diplomat who was supposed to be part of a European mission to Sri Lanka. On April 29, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President's brother, met with the British and French foreign secretaries and upbraided them for being "duped by the misinformation campaign the LTTE was carrying out," according to a report of the meeting published on the Defense Ministry's website. The Red Cross and U.N. agencies have raised several alarms about civilian casualties - a U.N. document leaked last...
...every frame - remains unkissed, though it does get to nestle on Harrison Ford's shoulder, inspire Robin Williams to mimicry and share the screen with Pelé, the Dalai Lama and that most celebrated of amphibians, Kermit. It's odd but charming, a phrase that might also describe the British monarchy for all but convinced republicans. And if the Prince succeeds in his mission to rescue the rain forest, he could even win round a few of them...