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...absence--the two-time Prime Minister is scheduled to return to Pakistan on Oct. 18 after eight years in exile--the tomb's marble floors have been chipped and its peeling walls spray-painted with anti-Benazir graffiti. Bhutto fled the country in 1999 when facing charges of corruption, which she contends were politically motivated. "She has disgraced the Bhutto name," says clan patriarch Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, who considers her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai an attempt to escape her sins. "The stigma will stay forever." Not to worry, insists the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa. "We will...
...Charles River, and a third conducted what one student called a “search-and-destroy mission for invasive plant species.” Santosh P. Bhaskarabhatla ’09, the field captain of a project at the West End House Boys & Girls Club, beautified a graffiti-covered wall, working with three students from the Kennedy School of Government and five other undergraduates. “We were outside, got some fresh air, got a work-out, got messy—but we all enjoyed it,” Bhaskarabhatla said. The initial motivation for the event came...
...Tiffany executives her one-of-a-kind pieces, including a necklace of big hammered-gold balls circled in tiny diamonds that is still part of her collection. Along with Picasso's oversize rings featuring chunky aquamarine, citrine or amethyst, she created more accessible?but equally iconic?pieces inspired by graffiti or handwritten x's and o's. "The idea was to create something young and fun and strong," says Picasso. "I wanted to make something that was romantic without being cute." This season she takes the notion one step further, introducing hearts that turn up ever so subtly around...
...Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles show, Love, was set in Liverpool and found recognizably English equivalents for Penny Lane and Eleanor Rigby's cemetery. The NBC TV drama American Dreams, also set in the '60s, wove a greater range of period music through its characters' lives, as did American Graffiti and lots of other I-love-the-'60s jukebox movies...
...Baghdad without the car bombs - and familiar. Then it dawns on me: Erica, and the movie, have got caught in a time machine. Before the murder she lived in New York, 2007; after, she's in New York 1974, when the city was near bankruptcy, subways were blighted by graffiti, the murder rate had more than doubled in eight years and the mood of the people was grim and guarded. They might have cheered a citizen-vigilante...