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...Saving Martha Stewart Fans of U.S. lifestyle icon Martha Stewart have raised more than $3,000 to mount a billboard in New York City's Times Square supporting her defense against insider-trading charges...
...according to the New York Times, called the Bolshoi's story "a myth" and said she had switched from ice cream to spinach and was as fit as ever. Volochkova's plunging necklines and friendships with rich, powerful men have made her a pop icon in Russia. "You have such a high opinion of yourself," a theater official told the dancer on Russian TV. What may have really got too big for the Bolshoi, it seems, was the ballerina's head...
...buyers and society figures assembled in a Chelsea photography studio. Standing in view of the crowd was Klein himself, surrounded by several p.r. handlers and the CEO of Phillips--Van Heusen, the giant shirt company that acquired Klein's label for $438 million earlier this year. Here was an icon of American fashion, the man who gave the world designer denim in the '70s and put underwear over the top in the '80s, a mere spectator at the debut of his designated successor, a virtually unknown 32-year-old from Brazil named Francisco Costa...
...haven’t heard too many complaints yet,” he added. Playing on the same level as the audience allows something far more powerful and memorable than the icon worship typical in rock music, he says. The crowd’s interaction becomes an extension of the music; its movement becomes essential to the overall experience...
...movie before: Israel surrounds what?s left of Yasser Arafat?s battered compound and assumes a menacing posture, vowing to act against him for failing to end terror attacks; masses of Palestinians, regardless of what they may think of Arafat?s stewardship, rally to their elected president and national icon; moderate Arab leaders warn of a regional cataclysm if the Israelis carry out their threat; and U.S. officials suggest politely but firmly that Arafat?s physical ouster would be ?unhelpful.? But each rerun of the ?Rumble in Ramallah? appears to simply confirm the aging Palestinian leader?s centrality...