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...Taillac pounces on the envelopes on her table. "When I get the packets, it's like sweets," she says. She unfolds rainbow moonstones, sparkling rose-quartz disks, aquamarines, mirrorlike smoky quartz ("the stone of depressed people") and a mound of sprinkles identified as multicolored sapphires. "Here's an order," she says. "And here's a problem: the buyer has indicated that for some items she would like two. These are stones; they occur in nature. I cannot get the same twice. But Justine will try." Justine Rumeau, De Taillac's right hand of six years, is already sorting through citrines...
...ordinary people got their ideas about liberty. They were surprised when I told them that some of it came from religion. They wanted to know if I thought violent protest was also necessary. They pushed me hard on the question of slavery. But they were also fascinated with the rainbow of faces they saw on campus. “How can there be so many different races here,” one student asked. She said people back home had warned her about “that thing called wasp.” These students grasped the power...
Today, there are no rainbow flags flying outside City Hall and no gay pride posters hanging on the walls of the Mayor’s office inside. Instead, the room is adorned with an assortment of paintings and a cluttered desk in the corner...
...Kenyan history," says Githongo, 40. "It's a painful process, and no one ever said it would be straightforward, but hopefully some of the impunity witnessed will never happen again." Githongo's crusade started at a time of great hope. In 2002, Mwai Kibaki, head of the National Rainbow Coalition, won the presidency, promising an end to corruption as "a way of life." Kenya was once one of Africa's fastest growing economies, but misrule and graft had helped lead to poverty and made the country unpopular with donors, who froze hundreds of millions of aid dollars. Outgoing President Daniel...
...Angelina Jolie licensed her lips. The designers have even solved the problem of those infuriating little Barbie shoes. The Bratz feet are huge, and when you remove a shoe, the whole foot comes off with it, mildly grisly but much more practical. The dolls are a sisterhood, a rainbow coalition, and they come with killer accessories, like the sushi lounge with a karaoke stage, or the Lil' Gym with treadmill and exercise bike...