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Despite the outfits' impracticality, celebrities and the extremely wealthy will occasionally wear a designer's outrageous creations in public. Actresses Diane Kruger and Leighton Meester frequently show up to events in runway gear. Victoria Beckham - who debuted her clothing label at this season's Fashion Week - has paraded around in everything from a tutu to something that made her look like a space robot. Last May, Madonna wore a pair of Louis Vuitton bunny ears to a gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Yet even at a place called the Costume Institute, the headpiece looked...
...Harvard-sponsored plan to relocate hundreds of residents to an eight-acre swath of housing to be built in North Allston. Now, with the City on the verge of approving the project—the stipulated community input period comes to a close next month, and only one public meeting has been held thus far about the most recent plan—Houghton and other neighborhood activists say their concerns about proposed housing density, open spaces, transportation, and retail opportunities can wait no longer. And as is common during planning discussions in Allston, blame quickly shifted to Harvard as well...
...local neighborhood, remains critically flawed. But even more disconcerting is the slender time frame they have to address their qualms: The community review process is slated to end in October—only three months after the Community Builders presented their revised plan. So far, only one public discussion has been dedicated to examining the plan...
...Sept. 14, Aceh's legislative council used the semiautonomy granted by a post-tsunami peace agreement to vote unanimously for a raft of Shari'a-inspired punishments, including possible death by stoning for adultery and whipping for homosexual activity. People caught having premarital sex could be subjected to 100 public lashes. The new laws are the strictest in the nation. Although Indonesia is overwhelmingly Muslim, most of the country's citizens are committed to a far more moderate form of the faith...
...predecessors are using their last days in power to push through a variety of orthodox Muslim ordinances. Previous laws passed by the local parliament require women to wear headscarves and outlaw gambling and the consumption of alcohol. Gambling, in particular, has been punished on numerous occasions in Aceh by public caning. (Read "How to Work Out While Muslim - and Female...