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...spread across the country, thanks to such young celebrities as Mary-Kate Olsen, Sienna Miller and Jessica Simpson, who have been photographed in flowing '70s-era dresses, floppy hats and bangly jewelry. Olsen in particular seems to be channeling a style made popular 35 years ago (picture the young Joan Didion in the Haight), draping yards of fabric around her tiny frame...
...Camp Casey II where Joan Baez was on hand and Father Joe Mulligan brought a letter of support from Nicaragua signed by four former Sandinista cabinet members, there was a flavor of the past, but this was not your father's protest movement. Both sides boasted bloggers and internet radio show hosts, caterers, shuttle buses, tee shirt and bumper sticker production on a major scale, instant music CDs-patriotic or folk-and the hit of the day, saddammagnets.com, a set of refrigerator magnets featuring Saddam Hussein in his underwear...
...interact. The idea was hatched in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1996 by Mary Briggs, Newcastle's assistant director of education, and Elizabeth Hammill, the kids' department manager at the local Waterstones bookshop. They solicited extensive donations and pledges of original artwork and manuscripts from heavyweights such as Pullman, Joan Aiken, illustrator Quentin Blake and ex-Monty Pythoner Terry Jones, who has been writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition...
...idea was hatched in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1996 by Mary Briggs, Newcastle's assistant director of education, and Elizabeth Hammill, the kids' department manager at the local Waterstones bookshop. They solicited extensive donations and pledges of original artwork and manuscripts from heavyweights such as Pullman, Joan Aiken, illustrator Quentin Blake and ex-Monty Pythoner Terry Jones, who has been writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition is an original illustration...
Some things about this age of change are unchanging. If childhood is about magic, 13 introduces mystery: Joan of Arc began hearing celestial voices when she was 13. Into the age of innocence, 13 brings sexuality: early versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story were tales of seduction in which her cape was a symbol of menstruation. Shakespeare's Juliet was 13, unready for love perhaps but, by the standards of her age, more than ready for marriage. Tom Sawyer is thought to have been 13 when he got "engaged" to Becky Thatcher. It is an age of prodigy...