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Kerry’s peculiar support of decentralization on education issues can be explained by looking at the NEA’s own political station. It’s an organization that prefers to work in state capitals—while those routinely collectivized under the label “gov jocks” at Harvard might overlook the powerhouse of the NEA in glances at national politics, it’s a good bet that you can find an NEA satellite’s office within three blocks of any state House. And on a community-by-community basis...
Such is the pathos of the Manhattan Front Row Girls (FRGs) depicted in British fashionista turned novelist Plum Syke’s new novel Bergdorf Blondes, to be released in April by Miramax Books. The light-hearted, designer label-laden novel is latest of the “chick-lit” fiction craze that has spawned a plethora of unlikely pop heroines from Bridget Jones to Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones...
...mystical eyes, Charlize Theron could just as easily have worn an old newspaper and still would have been the most glamorous person at the show. She instead opted for a strappy, sequined champagne gown, aptly showcasing one of Tom Ford’s final designs under the Gucci label. The subdued color of the dress went perfectly with the vivid shades of her hair and skin...
Sheesh, talk about a worthless album. Not since all those Sonic Youth noise records have I been clobbered over the head with something so disappointingly unlistenable and uninspired. At least the folks behind SY had the decency to release that shit under a different name and label, admitting from the outset that the meager effort they put in wasn’t worth the same respect or attention as their real music. Listening to this Liars drivel you’d think it was a different band playing than the one behind They Threw Us All in a Trench...
...Trying to distance themselves from a negative byword, the Abadgaran refuse to accept the "conservative" label. Although they differ fundamentally from reformists in that they do not question the vast constitutional power of unelected bodies, they still prefer to be called reformist. "We don't believe in the reforms of the so-called reformists. We will implement our own understanding of reforms in an Islamic Iran," says Haddad-Adel. "Real reforms," he says, "means a better standard of living within Islamic morals...