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...trends that pitted the ultrasexy look of the '80s against the sober minimalism of the '90s. Sex vs. sobriety is an age-old Milanese rivalry - one that goes back to the early days of Italian ready-to-wear when Giorgio Armani stood on one side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the more artsy Prada label with the kind of slick vulgarity that made him a fashion champion. This season there were new players...
...Harvard, I took an African dance class with the Ensemble’s current instructor, Joh Camara, and I was amazed by his djembe playing. The djembe is kind of an hourglass-shaped drum; it has goatskin on the top, and there’s an iron ring on the rim. It has a really distinctive, sharp sound. I’d never seen djembe playing. I’d only seen Nigerian drumming. So I bought a djembe from him, and he gave me a few lessons. It’s an amazing instrument because it?...
...oblige, says Collins, but that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take off my helmet, the Iraqi women don't believe I'm a female," says Sergeant Elizabeth Ricci, 20. "They'll come up and tug my hair." And Iraqi men? "One man saw a ring on my finger and asked who I was married to," she recalls. Joking around, Ricci pointed to a male soldier beside her. "Next thing, the Iraqi opens his wallet and is over there trying to buy me," she says...
...SENTENCED. ANDREW CHAN, 22, and MYURAN SUKUMARAN, 24, convicted of leading a drug-trafficking ring dubbed the "Bali Nine" by the Australian press; to death; by the Denpasar District Court; in Bali. The nine Australians?some as young as 19 at the time?were arrested last year on suspicion of plotting to smuggle 8.3 kg of heroin from the Indonesian island to Australia. While one woman and six men received life sentences for their roles as drug mules, Chan (pictured) and Sukumaran face death by firing squad, a punishment Australia has vigorously opposed. They plan to appeal their convictions...
...always maintained, the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Elliott also praises American restraint, which must seem like a morbid joke to the relatives of innocent Pakistanis, Afghans and Iraqis killed whenever American forces react too eagerly to intelligence. Elliott's claims that the U.S. acts to protect others ring hollow. The U.S. does not involve itself where there is nothing to gain. The chaos in Iraq, the almost forgotten war in Afghanistan, the staggering costs of the war on terrorists and the ever increasing litany of human-rights abuses make me deeply uncomfortable with the U.S.'s role...