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Between setups, she and costume designer Patricia Field had sneaked off to ogle the perfectly tailored French excess that is haute couture. Joining them in the front row was pint-size singer Christina Aguilera and Lord of the Rings lovely Liv Tyler, who had flown in especially for the Givenchy show (never mind that she's paid buckets of money to promote its beauty line; she needs an Oscar dress...
...actor Alan Bates did not include his starring role in the 1960s antiwar film King of Hearts. Its message is still (unfortunately) timely, almost 40 years later. I am a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and this is the only war movie I own (other than The Lord of the Rings). Bates will always be my "King of Hearts." GARY PAX Carbondale, Colo...
...clear the path of a bill to charge students more to attend university. (He'd staked his premiership on the outcome, and a loss could have led to a vote of confidence against him.) The very next day, Blair and the rest of his government were comprehensively cleared by Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of government weapons-expert David Kelly, who killed himself last year after being named as a source for a BBC report that Blair's government had "sexed up" the case for war against Iraq. Hutton's verdict confounded widespread expectations that some blame, perhaps...
...first place to have limited the potential use of WMD to defending the regime. Hutton accepted this; others were skeptical. Paul Routledge, in the Daily Mirror, was typical of the critics: "Nothing shocks us anymore. Mr. Blair done nuffink. Alastair Campbell is a plaster saint ? It beggars belief Lord Hutton could find these miscreants not guilty." The risk for Blair now is that the very size of the victory awarded by Hutton will provoke a destabilizing backlash. An NOP poll taken the day Hutton issued his report found that 49% of the public considered it "a whitewash" - that percentage rose...
...Brian Hutton, 72 One of Britain's 12 law lords and a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland , heard 25 days of evidence from 72 witnesses - all of it posted daily on the inquiry's website. His 328-page report exonerated the government and castigated the BBC. "Lord Hutton has performed a massive public service," wrote the Sun newspaper. But others called the report a whitewash - unbalanced and unfairly critical. Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's onetime press secretary, said, "The BBC has been horribly badly dealt with by Hutton, which is the most one-sided report you could ever...