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Obama and Gay Marriage Re "Obama's Gay Problem" [Aug. 31]: the President would not have a problem taking a stand if he were to look at his own marriage. My wife and I did. We were married in a traditional Christian wedding 43 years ago. We noticed that the civil same-sex ceremonies performed in California before Proposition 8 had no physical or spiritual impact on our marriage. Roger Allan Gee, SAN DIEGO...
Luxury designer retailers and fashion houses have taken most of the worst blows, with some, such as Bill Blass, Fortunoff, Christian Lacroix and IT Holding SpA (which owns the Gianfranco Ferre label) either filing for bankruptcy protection or liquidating their assets. Several more, such as Prada, Bulgari, Mariella Burani and Valentino Fashion Group, are treading water under a tidal wave of debt...
...that would seek to give more people a say in decision-making. Proposed changes included reducing the number of committee chairs to one from two per committee, creating an outreach committee, and promoting frequent committee meetings where definitive decisions can be made. The organization’s co-chairs, Christian L. Garland ’10 and Marco Chan ’11, led the “Queer Town Hall,” which drew at least 35 students—substantially more than the number who typically attend the club’s meetings, according to Garland...
Runway shows are notorious for their over-the-top, impractical outfits, and the Spring 2010 New York Fashion Week (which runs Sept. 10-17, 2009, obviously) was no exception. Alexander McQueen showed off his Speedo design; Christian Dior went for some sort of 19th century French-prostitute look; and Y-3 paraded their models in see-through outfits that literally had no armholes. While fashionistas and critics praised the designers for their original ensembles, the rest of us were left to wonder, Would anybody really wear that? (Read TIME's Fashion Week blog...
...Somalia's chaos has been felt ever more keenly around the world. The Islamists, under the umbrella organization of a group called the Islamic Courts Union, briefly took control of Mogadishu in spring 2006. But radicals in their ranks declared a jihad on neighboring Ethiopia - a mixed Muslim and Christian country - and Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December of that year. U.S. special operations troops hitched a ride with that operation, using the opportunity to track down the U.S. embassy bombers and any other al-Qaeda operatives in the country. During that invasion, al-Qaeda bombmaker Tariq Abdullah, a.k.a. Abu Taha...