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...director Tom Ford, has produced the world's first advertisement with full-frontal male nudity. The bits in question belong not to Ford but to former martial arts champion Samuel de Cubber. Ford calls it a "very academic nude," and says it is meant to pay homage to the landmark 1971 Yves Saint Laurent ads featuring a naked Saint Laurent sitting with his legs demurely crossed. Mainstream American magazines like GQ have opted to run a modest, genital-free version. Edgier titles including French Vogue and Visionaire will go for the Full Monty. Lacoste is also launching a fragrance campaign...
DIED. MARY MAXINE REED, believed to be 93, winner of the landmark 1971 Supreme Court sex-discrimination case that struck down an Idaho state law that automatically favored her husband as the administrator of their dead son's estate; in Boise. The unanimous decision was the court's first to extend equal protection to women...
...treaties, saying that nonproliferation has failed. Instead, Bush prefers counterproliferation—which means missile defense, dismantling weapons abroad or striking before states like North Korea have a chance to use weapons of mass destruction. While a more active anti-terrorist stance is certainly not a bad thing, ditching landmark arms treaties does little to help, and it could do much damage to the United States as international constraints on arms buildup wither away...
...enthusiastic crowd came to hear Robert Creeley, Martin Espada and former poet laureate Robert Pinsky read from their own poems and from works that remind them of the Harvard Square landmark...
Predictable as that conclusion might seem, doctors consider the study a landmark. Physicians have debated for years how aggressively they should treat cancer of the prostate. Because the disease tends to be very slow growing, many more men will die with prostate cancer than from it. Nobody wants to undergo surgery or radiation treatment if that can be avoided, especially because in the case of prostate cancer the side effects typically include impotence and incontinence. On the other hand, you don't want to die of prostate cancer if you can help it. If the cancer spreads to the bones...