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Viktor & Rolf also touched on the theme of formality and showed their collection of Ice Capades-inspired clothes against the backdrop of a full orchestra and Rufus Wainwright singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." A pair of ballroom dancers opened the show and four pairs of male-on-male ballroom dancers closed it. The purpose was to launch their new men's fragrance, Antidote, but this witty Amsterdam-based duo are not afraid to add a bit of social commentary to their work...
...Disdaining our laws in order to protect ourselves makes us little better than the maniacs who seek to destroy our civilisation. Paul Jacobi Obermarchtal, Germany Of Royal Chromosomes You owe Japan's Princess Masako an apology for reporting that she "failed in her one traditional duty: to produce a male heir" [Sept. 18], as though that were actually within her control. The only failures here are in your demeaning statement that that is her one traditional duty and in forgetting that it was her husband Prince Naruhito who determined the sex of their child, a daughter. Blame him! Peter Basmajian...
Chickity China the Chinese chicken, this Saturday the Barenaked Ladies had Harvard students laughin’ and kickin’. The Ladies (who are actually all male) brunched with 40 students at the home of the Adams House Masters and rocked and talked with 250 more at Lowell Lecture Hall. The Canadian rock band’s visit was the first in the new HarvardLIVE! series, a collaboration between the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Office For the Arts’ (OFA) Learning From Performers Program. The Barenaked boys were also the recipients of the first HarvardLIVE! Arts Achievement...
RESIGNED. Mark Foley, 52, fast- rising six-term moderate G.O.P. Congressman from Florida whose signature cause was protecting children from sexual predators; after the disclosure of e-mails and instant messages, some of them sexually suggestive, that he allegedly sent to several current and former teenage male pages in the House of Representatives; in Washington. As chairman of the House Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, Foley introduced legislation last summer to shield children from adult exploitation over the Internet. In a statement, the Congressman, who was a deputy Republican whip and until his abrupt departure had been expected...
...first and only woman Prime Minister, Edith Cresson--and tossed her aside in less than a year.) Royal still has to take on France's hoary political establishment, which isn't quite so ready to yield to her popularity. French political parties remain clannish, ideological nests dominated by their male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand the idea. The fact that...