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SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES Chantecaille's new pressed-powder compacts and eye shadows, below, feature embossed butterflies. A portion of sales goes to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation...
...invest in drilling, so he put the farmers and the oil companies together, typing the contracts on a portable typewriter on the hood of his rental car. His strength was making a deal look good, or as friend and fellow oilman Denny Bartell says, he had an ability to "powder the pig." Van Dyke would often keep a small percentage interest, but he was usually out of the operation before drilling began. "The first year, I made about $40,000, and that was 1952," he says. "I didn't find a barrel...
...toting totally whack hipster outfits.The new Hilary and her baby-giraffe thighs parade through the second section of the video in said outfits with a clear microphone in her hand, shaking her head in a woefully uncoordinated manner.She then sits in a see-through chair (wearing a powder blue headband) while the silhouettes of whatever long-haired sell-outs she co-opted into her band banged on see-through instruments. It’s all very mod, minus any pretense of legitimacy.The bridge signals a radical change in tone. The three chords employed throughout (bold minimalist statement or banal...
Still, for the moment, most politicians and activists on the left are keeping their powder dry, trying their best to express reservations about Alito without lashing out and sounding shrill. Absent a number of Republican defections, the Democrats will be unable to block Alito unless they resort to a filibuster that will prolong debate and prevent a full vote. And if they go that route, many Republicans have vowed to pursue the "nuclear option"--using a simple majority to pass a rule ending filibusters for judicial nominations...
Some bloggers earn their bias the hard way--in the trenches. Military bloggers, or milbloggers in Net patois, post vivid accounts of their tours of Baghdad, in prose covered in fresh flop sweat and powder burns, illustrated with digital photos. "Jason," a National Guardsman whose blog is called justanothersoldier.com, wrote about wandering through one of Saddam Hussein's empty palaces. And Iraqis have blogs: a Baghdad blogger who goes by Salam Pax (dear_raed.blogspot.com) has parlayed his blog into a book and a movie deal. Vietnam was the first war to be televised; blogs bring Iraq another scary step closer...