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...night at Fashion Institute of Technology while he worked a day job as an assistant at Harper's Bazaar. And his show on Sunday evening of delicate, multi-layered chiffon dresses in pastel pinks and lemons reminded me of the day three years ago when he rolled a rack of clothing into my office at TIME and announced that he wanted to be a designer. I was surprised to say the least since I knew him only as an aspiring fashion writer at the magazine. "You're crazy," I told him. But he persisted, showing me a capsule collection...
...Hilton's case, the person whose voice rises and falls rhythmically on the album--is known as much for her multiplatform celebrity as for her songs. All four women feel the need to tend to constituencies that may have wandered over from TV, the multiplex or the gossip-mag rack, and inevitably they usher their notoriety into their music. For those of us who like pop for pop's sake, the degree to which the albums succeed is entirely a function of how much the singers keep any mention of their fame--and the distance it creates--to a minimum...
...need to curb terrorism? There is every mechanism already available to the state to properly detect and detain and investigate. What is not just unacceptable, but plain wrong, is to say that a person suspected of terrorism deserves the rule book being torn up - basically a retreat to medieval rack and thumbscrew, and that's what Guantánamo is all about. Haven't the threats changed? These are simply not new problems. Every country has faced its challenges. Look at the way [James] Madison and [Thomas] Jefferson corresponded when they were trying to hammer out what rights a people...
...crucial to the bottom line. For example, 46% of Credit Suisse's pretax banking profit in the second quarter of this year was generated by private-banking operations. While retail banks must focus on volume by hawking me-too products to millions of less-wealthy customers, private banks can rack up bountiful revenues by offering a wide range of lucrative services to a smaller number of rich and superrich clients. It's not uncommon for a top private banker to thrive with as few as a dozen clients, who are happy to pay richly for personal guidance on such esoteric...
...village to which the UNIFIL convoy was hoping to proceed. "The Israelis have invaded our homes," wails Mustafa Kheir, 65, who says he refuses to leave Jibbayn because his crop of fresh tobacco leaves from which he derives a meager income is drying in the sun on a wire rack beside his house...