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...that the industry teems with disgruntled staffers, many of whom hope one day to get their revenge. Wayne Hemingway, designer of the now- defunct cult label Red or Dead, gets his chance to diss the London fashion scene this month, when Britain's Channel 4 begins airing his series, Revolt in Fashion. Like most fashion documentaries, it tells us what we already knew: that the business is less about art than about money. The few so-called scoops - magazine stylists also moonlight for fashion houses - are hardly tabloid fare. Hemingway begins by declaring: "Parts of the fashion industry stink...
...terrorists," Ba'asyir collapsed and was hospitalized; the next day Indonesian police put him under arrest in the hospital. Signing on at last to the war on terrorism could cost Megawati support from Islamic hard-liners--or worse, incite violence from Ba'asyir's followers, who had promised to revolt if their leader were arrested. Though radical groups make up a tiny minority of the population, there is the possibility that they could further undermine the authority of the central government, making Indonesia even more hospitable to terrorists. "Al-Qaeda is already here and capable of launching more attacks," says...
...When details leaked out before the scheduled Tuesday evening release of his preliminary proposals, those grumblings turned into a revolt. On Tuesday morning, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) heavyweights Mitsuo Horiuchi, Taro Aso and Taku Yamasaki vowed to intervene. While Koizumi briefed the emperor at the Imperial Palace that evening, the three leaders and other LDP bosses confronted Takenaka behind closed doors in the Diet building. Takenaka left the meeting looking visibly pale. "This was poor leadership from Koizumi," says Mamoru Yamazaki, chief economist at Barclays Capital Management. "Takenaka was accused by the leading politicians of the Diet, and the Prime...
...faux-fur, “Nausea,” which consists of nine yards of white plush fabric draped over chicken wire, is a condemnation of “sickeningly excessive sentimentality.” The column, which resembles a pile of vomited intestines, is more likely to revolt the viewer than evoke the “warm and fuzzy” emotions associated with its fabric...
...that end, the treaty at the close of the war cobbled together Iraq from three Ottoman provinces, one Kurdish, one Sunni Muslim and another Shi'ite Muslim. The British moved in under a League of Nations mandate. They didn't have a clue. In 1920 a full-scale revolt broke out. By one account, Britain lost 450 in the rebellion; other sources put the figure higher. Very quickly the British public, weary of endless war and shocked by reports that the R.A.F. routinely bombed women and children in Kurdish villages, turned against the intervention in Iraq. By the time...