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...will, for the first time in 26 years, schedule trunk shows this fall to presell the collection to clients in his own stores. "The idea that people are only buying these clothes to go to the Caribbean or on a weekend in Palm Beach is a complete misnomer," says Robert Burke, a luxury fashion consultant at Robert Burke Associates. "For retailers, it's about having fresh product on the floor. The luxury shopper is shopping now multiple times during the year. They're not just going into stores in March or September to buy their spring or fall wardrobes...
...Michael Kennedy, the sixth child of Robert Kennedy, who once seemed to have his father's quiet passion without the Kennedy sense of entitlement, finds himself at the center of a new scandal--that he allegedly had a five-year affair with a girl who baby-sat his three children at the family home in Cohasset, Mass., beginning when she was 14. At the same time, Joe II, a six-term Congressman planning to run for Governor, is trying to weather a just published book, Shattered Faith, by ex-wife Sheila Rauch Kennedy that depicts him as a narcissistic bully...
...very least some bulletproof vests. Robert Stellingworth, president of the non-profit New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, told the panel how private funds were needed to replace police body armor lost in the floods since the city-whose tax base has fallen off precipitously since the disaster-couldn't afford it and FEMA couldn't guarantee that it could reimburse the city to replace the waterlogged vests. It's not exactly what an officer in one of the nation's most gun-ridden cities wants to hear. "You just cannot ask officers to worry about whether FEMA's going...
Institutions were changing too. In his book Fatherhood in America, published this month, Robert L. Griswold has traced the history of a fast-changing role that today not only allows men in the birthing room (90% of fathers are in attendance at their child's birth) but also offers them postpartum courses in which new fathers learn how to change, feed, hold and generally take care of their infant. Some fathers may even get in on the pregnancy part by wearing the "empathy belly," a bulge the size and weight of a third-trimester fetus. Suddenly available to men hoping...
...press conference Thursday afternoon opposite the Capitol building, Sen. Mel Martinez appeared beside Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. A caravan of activists that had traveled from Los Angeles presented a million pro-immigration reform signatures to the trio. Sen. Kennedy made sure to make mention of two of the bill's main opponents, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim DeMint of South Carolina. "I hope that my friend Sen. Sessions will sit down and read these letters," he said, motioning to several stacks of bound petitions at his feet. "I hope that...