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...Part of the reason for Versace's troubled fortunes can be seen in the last room of the show. Dresses by Versace's current designer, Gianni's sister Donatella, show that while she's done an admirable job of keeping the family name in the spotlight - her plunging palm-leaf dress made headlines when it was worn by Jennifer Lopez - she doesn't have her brother's world-class talent. If there's to be a Donatella Versace exhibition in the future, she'd be wise to partner with a designer whose creative skills match her networking ones. See Also...
...Abroad, UN authorization is an important precondition, even if only as a legal and political fig leaf, for most countries likely to support a U.S. invasion. Many U.S. allies are resigned to the inevitability of an invasion, and many of those who have opposed it all along may feel obliged to support once it begins - not that their skepticism is insincere, but simply because their primary concern is stability and as U.S. allies they'd have an overriding interest in seeing the war won quickly and decisively. Further, many of the key foreign players in this conflict, from France...
...Leaf peepers may have to be extra determined in their quest this fall. With drought conditions still affecting almost half of the continental U.S., many leaves are falling from trees before they get a chance to change colors. And with wildfires still burning in Western states, the foliage across many areas of the Rockies could be obscured by smoke. But there are some bright spots: peepers in the northernmost parts of the Midwest, upstate New York and northern Vermont can anticipate the most intense fall colors of the past few years...
Saleh governs a poor, mountainous country of 18 million where many adults squander much of the day in the national pastime of chewing a mildly narcotic leaf called kat. According to a recent local study, a typical Yemeni laborer spends three times as much on kat as on food. Saleh would like to make the country more economically productive, but investors are leery of Yemen's frontier culture. After Sept. 11, the government launched a grand sweep against individuals suspected of al-Qaeda links, and it still holds hundreds, according to high-level officials. In his effort to impose order...
Warning: "Cages" starts badly, with not one but four different silly creation myths, written out with such overcooked prose as "Time, a leaf, a life, a cloud, was forgotten." Skip them and go right to the comix. Here McKean's visual prowess justifies the metaphysical themes. "Cages" mostly takes place in an apartment building that Leo Sabarsky, a painter, has just moved into. There he meets Jonathan Rush, a secretive, Salman Rushdie-like writer whose latest book incites riots. Completing the traditional arts, Angel, a musician who can make stones sing, lives there too. Mixing Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python...