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...have big shoulders played such a prominent role in fashion. For fall, designers like Michael Kors, Donna Karan and Stefano Pilati of Yves Saint Laurent showed structured jackets, enlisting the signature '80s power tool to try to give shaky consumers some self-assurance--and, they hope, a reason to shop...
...Project is only one of many such investigations into Islam's role in the 21st century. This is perhaps the most intellectually active period for the faith since the height of Islamic scholarship in the Middle Ages. "There is more self-confidence in the Islamic world about dealing with reason, constitutionalism, science and other big issues that define modern society," says Ibrahim Kalin of the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research in Ankara. "The West is no longer the only worldview to look up to. There are other ways of sharing the world and negotiating your place...
...crush on Julia Roberts, it has to be said. She's smart, she's funny, and she's incredibly grounded. And she has a very wicked sense of humor. Some of the dialogue in Closer--to be saying that to America's sweetheart! Part of the reason I adore her is she was so brilliant working on that film. It's very dangerous material, and those scenes are emotionally brutal. She made it as easy as possible...
Just as with the rest of us, his great weakness is hope. He's attracted to it and deeply suspicious of it all the same. It's a reason he's been preoccupied lately by the brief heyday of the Soviet avant-garde in the years right after the October Revolution, before Stalin put his very big foot down and imposed the rule of socialist orthodoxy in all artistic realms. A short episode of utopianism that ended in its own flood of blue tears, those years seem to epitomize for him the absurdity and paradox of politics...
...counting) in taxpayer aid. Without that aid, AIG would have gone bankrupt in September and the bonus promises would have been torn up. AIG was not allowed to go bankrupt because Lehman Brothers had just failed and the people at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance for banks around the world - might wipe out the global financial system and unleash an economic catastrophe far worse than what we're going through now. In short, the people at AIG FP, the very division...