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...wild antics is downright ignorant. With over 800,000 members worldwide and an operating budget of $21 million—86 percent of which is earmarked directly to fighting animal exploitation—PETA is currently one of the most effective lobbying organizations in the world. Its anti-fur protests, animal cruelty investigations and “reality television” vans that travel around the country depicting abused animals get front-page coverage in various publications—including The Crimson last week—and force big-name animal abusers to clean up their acts. In 1993, PETA...
...Please don't touch the hats," says the small man in the white coat as he rolls open a heavy door to reveal shelves and shelves of Yves Saint Laurent couture accessories - straw boaters, jeweled crowns, fur toques. His concern is understandable: these aren't so much hats as pieces of history, carefully catalogued and stored in climate-controlled rooms on the third floor of 5, Avenue Marceau - Saint Laurent's famous couture house, now a cultural foundation and home to his archives. Last Friday evening, Saint Laurent devotees such as Catherine Deneuve were invited to walk through the archives...
Meet Iona Senator. This fur- and diamond-clad 40-year-old sees her recent $50 million contribution to President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign not as a donation, but rather as an investment that will help her live out the rest of her days sipping raspberry lemonade on the porch of her mansion in Martha’s Vineyard...
...Beaubien family’s roots extend generations back into the Quebec fur trade. But after earning an MBA from HBS in 1951, Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien started a Canadian communications firm, the Telemedia Corporation, which today is run by his sons...
...recent addition to the organization’s long list of over-the-top advocacy positions. During the Harvard Square protest, PETA Vice President Dan Mathews and five others (including one undergraduate) frolicked almost completely naked in a bed to make a point (kind of) about the horror of fur. Mathews had called the protest as a hands-on prelude to his scheduled appearance later that afternoon in Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” taught by Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer...