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...Awarded an OBE...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder It's hard to know what has made fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, 63, more famous: her punk-era bondage trousers and GOD SAVE THE QUEEN T shirts or the time she flashed photographers after receiving an OBE in 1992. Either way, after more than 30 years of irreverence and innovation, Westwood has earned her place among the most influential designers of her generation. Colleagues like Christian Lacroix and John Galliano have 'fessed up to her influence. And at the European fall 2004 shows in Paris in March, designers...
...OBE me? Up yours, I thought." Benjamin Zephaniah, British Rasta poet and activist, in an essay explaining that he turned down the Order of the British Empire honor because it "reminds me of slavery...
...Forward Spin: OBE's next step: expansion...
Increasingly, an electoral race isn't even required to win converts and influence agendas. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum conducts seminars in Georgia to challenge that state's new OBE programs, and not incidentally to publicize the Forum's wider agenda. Opponents of OBE have managed to galvanize concern to the point that parents in suburban Atlanta stick leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history...