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Maybe a year ago, I wrote a short piece article decrying a recent fashion trend. The trend—girls exhibiting their, um, let’s call it butt cleavage, through the use of low-rise jeans and a complete lack of proper decency—had swept across campus and the country. Denim designers and fashionistas everywhere had spawned lines of clothing tailored specifically for this purpose. Magnitude of butt cleavage across females being mostly equal, at least compared to the normal kind of cleavage, the playing field was finally leveled...
...better or for worse, however, butt cleavage fizzled out this summer. Its replacement is, to some, the most horrifying fashion trend since Europe adopted the merkin in the 1600s to prevent lice. The popped collar is ascendant...
...June 30 Congress, trying to gum up the regulatory process, overwhelmingly passed a resolution preventing the U.S. Treasury from spending any money to "approve" CNOOC's bid. In response, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman?representing a government elected by no one?felt compelled to say publicly that Congress should butt out. Economic tensions with China were already front and center for many Congressmen, obsessed as they have been all year with China's surging trade surplus and a currency that was not revalued until July 21, and the Foreign Ministry did CNOOC no favors in Washington by weighing...
...grievances, and the list just got longer. In a development that was, perhaps, sadly inevitable, the London bombings ignited a spate of racist attacks. Several mosques were firebombed or had their windows smashed; there were incidents of abuse, threats and assaults. A 48-year-old Muslim man, Kamal Raza Butt, died, allegedly after being set upon by a mixedrace gang of youths in Nottingham. For the friends of Tanweer, such actions may just confirm their diagnosis of the ills of Western society. The boys on the street may be bewildered by his actions, but they are not slow to speculate...
...group, from Michael J. Fox to Henny Youngman. HBO will let cable operators make the broadcast available to all subscribers by unscrambling the signal. Goldberg, once a welfare mother who escaped homelessness when friends took her in, says, "I am part of this because I want to cover my butt ... It could be me tomorrow, it could be you tomorrow, it could...