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Frances Weeks, manager of a boutique in London's hip Notting Hill neighborhood, proudly holds up a dress by Italian designer Emilio Pucci. Such frocks usually come with a stratospheric price tag attached; she's selling this one for a mere $200. Oh, and how about those Prada evening shoes she's got priced at just $140? They'd usually set you back several hundred bucks. So what's the catch? Well, most of the chichi clothes, shoes and accessories on sale at this shop are ... well, preworn. Weeks' boutique is in fact an upscale version of the ubiquitous Oxfam...
...early as last summer, months before Ledger's sudden death in January, Warner Bros. sensed that Nolan was filming something that might transcend mere fanboy fodder. With Batman Begins, in 2005, the director successfully rebooted the troubled franchise, but this time around his decision to go darker - and The Dark Knight is as mordant a superhero movie as there has ever been - dovetailed with the popular mood. "We saw the dailies coming in and we knew we had an incredible movie," says Fellman. Though Christian Bale's Batman is The Dark Knight's star, it was Ledger's knife-wielding...
...course, Baci and writing are mere hobbies for this 41-year-old physician. "Mostly I'm 'head down, bum up,' as they say in New Zealand," he chuckles. "I'm just busy." This hasn't curbed his ambitions, though. During a promotional tour of India for Cool Cut, he noticed "people reading voraciously," and an absence of palatable java. "I couldn't get a decent coffee the whole time I was there," Paul says. "I thought, We need to go there." Within a few years, he hopes to expand Baci into big Indian cities and channel a portion...
...notion that our economic pain is in our heads. So did Barack Obama, who quipped that America doesn't need another Dr. Phil. They've got a point too. Unemployment, inflation, a $9 trillion national debt and $4-per-gal. gas are very real phenomena. It's no mere figment of our imagination that prices are rising at their fastest rate in 27 years. It also just so happens that IndyMac really was dangerously overextended. The panic was ultimately justified...
...Others have suggested the problem is more profound than a mere party spat. Certainly, there are deep divides between the communities that go beyond mere language. Leterme himself once described Belgium as "an accident of history...