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...bustle) of contemporary life - Lacroix, sweetie. Valentino didn't make statements; he made dresses, as he proclaimed, "for women who actually wear them." A warming elegance was his trademark: la belle, la perfectly swell romance. This ethereal chic served the emperor and his clients well for ages; one journalist calls him "the only designer in the world who's managed to last 45 years." But not 46. Two years ago, at 75, Valentino was abruptly retired by Permira, the private equity group that had bought the company...
...Eric Nalder, a journalist with the P-I who has earned two Pulitzer Prizes for investigative reporting over the past 39 years, agrees that "high-impact journalism" must be, and will be, preserved. "I'm not saying that bloggers don't bring valuable information," he says, "but we can't depend on them alone. We need to be breaking new ground all the time as journalists." (See the worst business deals...
...news across the American West and eventually, he hopes, western Canada. "It is a venture aimed at doing investigative, environmental and narrative journalism - for all kinds of platforms," he says. He has purchased the domain name TrueWest.info and already has 10 people onboard. His wife, Seattle-based freelance journalist Sally Deneen, has been working with several P-I reporters to develop the Seattle Post Globe, a site, she says, that will be devoted to keeping alive what she calls the scrappy, underdog spirit of the paper, either as a cooperative or a nonprofit. Says Deneen: "It just seems, to some...
TIME: The thing that inspired this book was a class on exorcism. Tell me about it. BAGLIO: I was a freelance journalist living in Rome and had heard about this course called Exorcism and the Prayer of Liberation. It was organized by the Legion of Christ and their school, the Regina Apostolorum, which is Vatican-affiliated. Not knowing anything about exorcism or if the Church even still believed in it, I was intrigued by the idea of a university-level course teaching priests about exorcism...
...manner of the FMLN's victory tells the story of a leftist movement eschewing its armed-rebel image for more mainstream political branding: Funes, 49, a former television journalist, is the first FMLN presidential candidate who was never a guerrilla commander. In El Salvador's last presidential election, in 2004, the FMLN led in early polls until it announced its candidate - the former communist and guerrilla chief Schafik Handal - and went on to be crushed by the ARENA incumbent. This time, the right-wing party managed to narrow Funes' early lead in the polls by painting him, often maliciously...