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...tweeds). Her passion for Oriental art is less well known, but that may change with the recent unveiling of Chanel's fall make-up range. Inspired by the designer's Coromandel screens (she owned over 30 of these Chinese-made, lacquered folding screens, a collection considered the best in pre-war Europe), the range includes a gorgeous eye shadow and blush palette. Its intense colors-red ocher, gold and black-match Chanel's screens, as do its laser-cut decorative motifs. Though priced at $60, double the cost of most powder compacts, the limited-edition piece is already a best...
...tweeds). Her passion for Oriental art is less well known, but that may change with the recent unveiling of Chanel's fall make-up range. Inspired by the designer's Coromandel screens (she owned over 30 of these Chinese-made, lacquered folding screens, a collection considered the best in pre-war Europe), the range includes a gorgeous eye shadow and blush palette. Its intense colors - red ocher, gold and black - match Chanel's screens, as do its laser-cut decorative motifs. Though priced at $60, double the cost of most powder compacts, the limited-edition piece is already a best...
...gone away, and—among some prominent Bush-bashers—it is even accompanied by a mendacious pro-Saddam nostalgia. Michael Moore continues to defend his “Fahrenheit 9/11” portrayal of “sovereign” (though internationally sanctioned) pre-war Iraq in which children fly kites and shoppers smile in the sunshine. Popular Democratic bloggers continue posting only the negative stories out of Iraq. And just last week, a spokesperson for Moveon.org again condemned “the senseless number of Iraqi deaths that this war and instability has caused...
...thugs employed as secret police by the Hussein family—each one of those deaths is a tragedy. It is even possible that many of them could have been averted if the administration’s blinded neo-cons had listened to Colin Powell and done some better pre-war planning...
...Feith did identify what he called an “inordinate focus on the WMD issue” as one flaw in pre-war intelligence...