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...very, very sorry to say that my business is skyrocketing," the personal-finance guru Suze Orman said one late January afternoon. The Dow was down almost 200 points, and Orman was lounging on the terrace of her San Francisco town house, wearing a leopard-print tunic and cowboy boots. She looked up and popped a grape into her mouth. "This is happening because of the lies and deceit and greed of Wall Street, the mortgage companies, the SEC, the Administration," she said, growing agitated. Her outlook on the economy is practically apocalyptic: Millions more jobs will be lost, the stock...
...rediscovered beauty. Jonathan Rendell, Christie's point man on the auction, says Saint Laurent's collecting quest undoubtedly helped feed his vision of couture. "The textures and the structure are the first thing you notice," he says as he tours the apartment, singling out several cubist works, a 1928 leopard-skin bench by Gustave Miklos, and a 15th century tapestry. "And then you see how fundamental the colors are. He was greatly influenced by Matisse." Known for his precision in his atelier, at home Saint Laurent would constantly make tiny adjustments to where certain paintings hung or where a footstool...
...kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged. But primly; this was the 50s. And primitively: no retakes, no expert lighting, no dialogue, no sound. Just the girls. Rather, the girl. The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini, as she was dubbed. Satan's Angel. Bettie Page...
...best MacBook feature, however, is the Leopard operating system, which I find so much simpler, more stable and more straightforward than Windows Vista. The only possible argument anyone can make in the latter's favor is that, well, it powers some mighty cheap machines. And so, in summary, just as the political pundits have done lately, I'll paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes: taxes are the price we pay for civilized computers...
...hands, both of which had gone exploring in the folds of her dress. “Later. Soon!” She ran off after Frederick.She found him frozen in front of a large oil painting. The Englishman had depicted some kind of incomprehensible allegory–a leopard, a sextant, philosophical books, and in the middle of it all a painted man, naked.Felicity stood, aghast. She felt the rising tide within her breast, the swelling of a liquid blaze that she could not suppress. She knew not from whence this Irish fire came; it overflowed from some inner latent...