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...Wintour we meet is still capable of the kind of arbitrary intimidations that might inspire a damning best seller. But this empress definitely is wearing clothes. Flattering ones. And if she knows her own mind, she also knows when to change it. As Cutler pans over the final layout for September 2007, complete after a half-year's labor, the camera catches the image of a zany rubber dress from an early "textures" shoot that Coddington had loved but Wintour had removed. There it was, bound for the newsstands. Was it restored in service of the story or in deference...
...preside over Kennedy's funeral. Some conservatives already see the fact that the rites are not being held in a cathedral (but rather at the Senator's favorite church) as significant. (UPDATE: While Cardinal O'Malley was not the principal celebrant at Kennedy's funeral mass, he provided the final commendation at the ceremony on Saturday...
...some 100 protesters waited outside the Bank of England for final directions to the climate camp, to be disseminated by SMS. "British police are the best in the world at policing," says a man who identified himself as You Can Call Me Jeff (climate campers prefer to withhold their real names). "After all, they've had centuries of repressing social movements. They know how to win the battle of the story, to convince people they're in the right. But at the G-20, they lost it." Kat, another seasoned climate camper, agrees. She recalls watching riot police lash...
...European jaunt. Though Merkel has always been careful to avoid pressuring Israel in public on the issue, German officials have said the Chancellor will remind Netanyahu during their meeting on Thursday of Berlin's position that all settlement activity in the West Bank be halted and that a final peace agreement be based on a two-state solution. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...
...risk is that the hopelessness and helplessness has become so great by the time you reach the final destination that people on both sides say, 'All that, just for this? Forget it,' " Mekelberg says. "On the other hand, really big breakthroughs clearly aren't in the cards right now, so small steps are really the only choice you have. When things are this tight, small movement is big compared to no movement." (See pictures of Israeli soldiers sweeping into Gaza...