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...early designing days, Louboutin searched for a way to match the shoe to a colorful sketch. "Something was missing, and I couldn't figure it out," he remembers. "Then I realized that the black sole of the shoe was too dark." So he grabbed a bottle of red nail polish from an assistant who was doing her nails nearby and painted the soles. "It didn't take me long to learn from my customers that the red soles were very popular with men," Louboutin says, laughing. "This red sole was a bit of a green light...
...This makes for extremely stupid politics, where substance is only relevant to catch politicians in flip-flops or mistakes. Last night, for example, Gibson tried to nail Obama over capital gains taxes, revealing only his own misunderstanding of the difference between correlation and causation. For all the back-and-forth over a crazy Weatherman he once served with on a board, Obama never got to tell voters that he opposed the war in Iraq from the start. For all the back-and-forth over her Tuzla goof - Obama stayed out of it, although he acknowledged that his campaign aides addressed...
...Crimson opened its spring break campaign with a 10-9 nail-biter against Concordia behind strong play in goal before falling 9-5 against Cal Baptist the following day. Harvard recovered from its loss later that afternoon with a 9-5 victory over Cal Redlands. In the week’s opener, co-captain Vivian Liao capped a back-and-forth battle with the game-winning 10th goal with 2:53 left in final frame to give her team a 10-9 win. The score was Liao’s fourth on the day. Co-captain Lauren Snyder also found...
...candidates for the state convention slots, then each precinct delegate had one vote. The two top winners would serve as the delegates, with the third- and fourth-place winners named as alternates if either of the delegates could not attend the June state convention. The Clintonites' goal was to nail down one of the two main delegates...
...tree, but he's come to recognize the importance of the forest. "Now I want to feed a child and save a tree," he says with a grin. But can he do all that and grow fuel for the world as well? "Ah, now you've hit the nail on the head." Maggi says the biofuel boom is making him richer, but it's also making it harder to feed children and save trees. "There are many mouths to feed, and nobody's invented a chip to create protein without growing crops," says his pal Homero Pereira, a congressman...