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...Colombian designer began producing high-security fashion 16 years ago while studying at Bogotá's Los Andes University, where his classmates--many of whom were the children of politicians--wore protective vests that were heavy and nondiscreet. Fast-forward to his latest leather jacket, which weighs a trim 2.6 lb. (1.2 kg) and doesn't scream bulletproof...
...doesn't have a baby-boomer perspective. (Creator Matthew Weiner, 42, was born after the boomer cutoff.) Its sensibility is closer to artifacts of its time like The Apartment or John Cheever's Wasp-character-study stories. In Mad Men, the boomers are a market for Clearasil or the children of the Drapers and their friends, largely unseen and unheard. (In a new episode, Don instructs his grade-school-age daughter how to mix a Tom Collins for guests...
...Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) had basked in victory after the Texas Supreme Court ordered the return of the children taken from its ranch in Eldorado in April. But the state's attorney general Greg Abbott pledged to prosecute FLDS members to the full extent of the law. And this week, after going through evidence taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Abbott indicted Warren Jeffs - the "Prophet" of the polygamists - along with four of his followers on charges of first-degree felony sexual assault of a minor. (The four men were not named, and law-enforcement officials...
...that Texas would never mess with them," says Randy Mankin, the editor of the Eldorado Success, the small-town newspaper that has chronicled events at the nearby FLDS ranch from the compound's founding through the April 2008 raid by Texas officials that swept up more than 400 children...
...ladies knew they were safe if they were obedient. If they had lots of daughters, they got handed out to everybody - it was like a feast." If a man resists the leadership, he risks losing his wife (or wives) and his home, she says. "If a woman does, her children are taken from her." The coercive power of the FLDS is immense, she says. "Right now, leaving the FLDS is like jumping off a cliff...