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...fashion, and it led her from summer jobs at the Yves Saint Laurent boutique in New York City to 16 years as a fashion editor at Vogue, where she did covers and influential shoots with photographers like Richard Avedon and Deborah Turbeville. There too she eyed the top prize. "I don't think you stay for 16 years and not want the ultimate say," Wang explains. When she realized she wasn't going to get it, that she would never be editor in chief, "I had to try to recover," she says...
...informs. Its anger is the stronger for being deployed with such classic restraint. And the stories he chooses to share speak for thousands of other lives that are, and always will be, untold. A powerful complement to such novels as A Distant Shore (which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize three years ago), Foreigners is really one piece of a mosaic that Phillips has been carefully and patiently putting together all his life. Britain cannot know itself, he suggests, until it acknowledges all of its parts...
...Harvard, Hanzich, a resident of Leverett House, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society, a John Harvard Scholar, a Detur Book Prize winner, and a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship...
...surprisingly, Romero's group has endorsed Bill Richardson, the only candidate of Latino background, for the Democratic nomination. "We have in Bill Richardson an individual who has 15 years in Congress, served as an ambassador to the U.N., was nominated four times to the Nobel Peace Prize, governor of New Mexico. The fact that he's also Hispanic is just the cherry...
...Though Lust, Caution won the top prize at Venice, it has not been so widely admired by critics as Lee's other famous films. But it should be, for it mixes daring and delicacy with a master's touch. Toronto has got off to a good start with Lee's elegant, erotic movie - his own Brokeback Bedroom...