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...this one. Anyway, a cynic is what it got during the industry's big pret-a-porter shows in Paris last spring, when Altman mingled with the modish elite and found room in his film for many of them: designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake, models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch...
Asked why she reads these publications, Naomi L.Reid '97 says: "It's a nice break from Kant...
Mediators were trained over two weekends last spring, said Naomi Andre, mediator and race relations tutor in Winthrop House...
...flap has masked the fact that the book does expose some embarrassing exaggerations in feminist literature, along with much p.c. silliness on the part of Sommers' academic feminist colleagues. Most strikingly, it debunks author Naomi Wolf's assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls...
...graces the cover. When there is talk of lunching at the Royalton hotel -- which houses New York's famously soigne publishing-world eatery, 44 -- Zlata asks, beaming, "Is that where the models are?" But her giddy, girlish mood is dampened when the French publishing liaison, assuming a Naomi Wolf-ish posture, informs Zlata that "models aren't people to emulate. They are obsessed with their bodies, not with what's up here," she adds, pointing to her head...