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...time period. It seems very neutral, but the designs and the lines are very contemporary.” Dang’s vision is realized in her final product—a floor length backless black gown, with white asymmetric cutouts around the midsection, and an added cape for flare. “I’m taking all the elements and color that were part of the theme for Cotton Mather and putting my own style to it,” she says. The dress does just that as it captures the no-nonsense mindset of the Puritan Mather...
...only threatened by terrorism, but is also teetering toward bankruptcy. Spiraling inflation, now at 25%, has eaten into Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves at a rate of $1 billion a month and the country risks defaulting on debt repayment loans. These fiscal headaches have been compounded by a flare-up in tensions with its most vital ally, the U.S., which recently launched raids against terrorist targets in Pakistan's remote tribal areas without notifying Islamabad - actions that have triggered a firestorm of protest and clouded relations with Washington...
...efforts have turned out well. Some diplomats believe the solution he helped draft to the Kosovo war in 1999, which stipulated that Kosovo remain under Serbia's control, left the problem unresolved and sowed the seeds for the recent flare-ups between the West and Russia in the Balkans and Caucasus. "It was not a good deal. We should have gone all the way," says a U.S. diplomat familiar with the compromise. Ahtisaari has also been criticized for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which he did on humanitarian grounds...
...local rebel leader in particular - known as Commander Bravo - has a reputation for defying MILF leadership to carry out daring, bloody military strikes. In 2003, during the last major flare-up of violence in the area, Bravo's soldiers robbed and murdered at least 16 civilians. In interviews, Bravo said he staged the attack in order to put pressure on the government to negotiate. In 2007, the insurgent leader threatened to attack government offices in the region after the MILF invited government personnel in to investigate the killing of 14 Philippine marines, 10 of whom were beheaded, allegedly by fighters...
...California FIRE WITH FIRE A firefighter uses a flare to light a firebreak as hundreds of blazes crackled across Northern California, scorching about 570 sq. mi. (1,475 sq km) of land and threatening the tourist enclave of Big Sur. With the weather expected to remain dry, officials said some of the wildfires could burn for months. Devastating fires last October caused more than $1 billion in damage...