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...loud purple suit. On Tuesday, he struck a comparatively muted tone, sporting a blue pinstriped suit, with a preppy blue-and-orange striped tie. On Wednesday, he wore a light-brown pinstriped suit, a white shirt and a yellow tie with dots of an undeterminable color. The only constant so far has been Kelly's cornrows, which always seem to be freshly tightened. Haj Gueye, a Chicago fashion consultant whose clients include the comedian Bernie Mac, Chicago Cubs player Derrek Lee and several top executives, says he would have advised Kelly to wear a more closely cropped haircut, and more...
...with a matchless capacity to reinvent himself, and an almost superhuman resilience that enabled him to see off his enemies. He felt uncomfortable with any fixed ideological position, relying instead on intuition. Critics put it about that he lacked intellectual inquisitiveness; in fact, he made a constant effort to refresh his thinking and was no ignoramus. He particularly liked Chekhov's short stories. When not bingeing on vodka, he was a bit of a puritan in social relations. He abhorred unpunctuality: his favorite gift to anyone was a wristwatch. Aides who made lewd comments quickly lost their posts...
Eight of us put the radio show together, and we are in constant search of stories. It generally takes us four or five months to find enough stories for one show. A surprising number of things just come to us from our website, including some of the most beautiful stories we've ever...
...Then there are those films that promise it all - a top director, a tony cast, a distinguished source novel, a provocative theme - and instantly pratfall. One of these is the festival's opening night selection, Blindness, from the Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener...
...residents. In some parts of the city, gunfire is a common sound and it's hardly unheard-of for innocent bystanders to be injured or killed. Nutter, who is black, was elected mayor last year in part on his promise to reduce the killings in a city weary of constant gunplay. "The rise in homicides makes it really clear that [the police] are operating under a level of stress," says longtime Philadelphia Daily News columnist Elmer Smith. "That doesn't necessarily cause the community to give them a pass, but certainly causes them to be less inclined to leap...