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...this doesn't mean Posen will make it. The fashion business has such a ferocious appetite for the new and young that it grinds them up early and completely. Exhibits A, B and C: the tormented careers of former guys-to-buy Miguel Adrover, Todd Oldham and Isaac Mizrahi...
...future right-wingers. In fact, only the nationalities involved have changed from campaign to campaign. Pim Fortuyn became Mayor of Rotterdam after attacking the prevalence of gangs of Caribbean youths; the British National Party won an unprecedented 16.4 percent of the vote in the rundown industrial town of Oldham in 2001 for its anti-Pakistani policies. Le Pen, of course, focused his campaign on the criminal tendencies of North African immigrants in French urban areas...
More than two decades ago, women who had trouble conceiving were given a boost when Lesley Brown gave birth to the first TEST-TUBE BABY, in Oldham (pop. 227,000), England. The advance launched a debate over its ethical and biological implications...
...vitro fertilization to be applauded as a humanizing technique, allowing some infertile couples the joy of procreation? Or is it dehumanizing, a step that is to be condemned because it puts the moment of creation outside the body into a mechanical environment? To some thinkers, the Oldham experiment poses no problems. Says Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary: "The Browns were trying to obey the commandment to have children. When nature does not permit conception, it is desirable to try to outwit nature. The Talmud teaches that God desires man's cooperation." For many...
...seemed shell-shocked. Was this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police? Or a master plan by white racists, after earlier riots in Oldham and Burnley, to whip up trouble in a series of northern English cities? All these explanations had their advocates. On the airwaves and on the streets, feelings were mixed - fury at the rioters, some anger at the police for weak tactics - but mostly fear that the city, already poor...