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...Independence pronounced "all men are created equal," a phrase that provided a central argument for ending slavery and bringing blacks into citizenship, and it still offers the best hope for conquering the doctrine of white supremacy. As unbelievable as it may seem to modern observers who have a knee-jerk sensitivity to signs of Jeffersonian hypocrisy, this language genuinely alarmed many of Jefferson's contemporaries. Even though Jefferson was a slaveholder, the sentiments in the Declaration, when added to his well-known antislavery stance and his support for the hierarchy-shattering French Revolution, made him seem a radical bent...
BRITNEY SPEARS Because of a knee injury, the pop tart had to cancel the tour she launched in March. She was filling the seats until then...
...male soldiers to hold hands and kiss one another on the street, machine guns slung casually by their sides. At the same time, though, wives follow their husbands in the street and women are not supposed to make eye contact with men. A skirt that falls just below the knee will draw whistles and disapproving stares from across the Nile, but Britney Spears and Kelis dominate even the Egyptian music video channels. These ironies struck me as simultaneously amusing...
...uninitiated, the traditional Chinese cheongsam is a tightly fitted garment, with side slits that go as high as the wearer dares?from modest notches above the knee to attention-grabbing openings as high as the upper thigh. Precision tailoring is vital, and that's why Cao's clients flock to him from as far afield as Hong Kong and Taiwan. "I have made thousands of cheongsam," he says. "How could I remember how many?" Still, he has kept up with the trends. "Women used to be more modest," shrugs Cao. "Now they want everything tighter, shorter and more colorful." Prices...
...seem odd that at this crucial time LG has turned over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming CEO, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the "twin towers." He had spent his entire career buried...