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...TIME: So, the thing is: there's a never-ending war in the Middle East. There's starvation and strife in Africa. There's authoritarian rule in Asia, corruption in South America, and a really poor crop of American Idol contestants this season. Why should women want to rule the world...
...makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring - on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge - that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military...
...whose svelte curves were emblematic of the epoch's streamlined aesthetic; and Piaggia's Vespa 150 GS, similar to the one ridden by Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 film Roman Holiday. Speed also played its part in the golden age of Italian cinema; witness the Lancia Spider that homegrown idol Vittorio Gassman drove in Il Sorpasso, a 1962 road movie dripping with dolce vita style...
...legacy is already emerging from this service. A few years ago, Pertile and Bensted commissioned an Eliot House song to be written and an American Idol-esque competition emerged. Ever since residents voted and chose the winning lyrics in the dining hall, singing the song at dinner has become a classic Eliot tradition...
...shape of a perfect pear, and thus, it is impossible to buy anything except a hip length jacket. This may be true. I also realize that she is trying to be taken seriously by an all-male establishment that only likes her when she cries. But I second my idol Anna Wintour when she says: “The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying.” Just because Bill happens to embody all your goals and dreams doesn’t mean...