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...small shop in one of this city's largest Mexican neighborhoods, Laura Martinez scans rows of candles bearing the images of Saint David, Saint Raphael and Saint Jude. But she overlooks those and grabs two candles featuring Santa Muerte - Saint Death. "She's my patron saint," says Martinez, 24, who arrived here from a town outside Mexico City about six years ago. "You worship her," she says of Santa Muerte. "It's my religion...
...certain degree of urgency may have come to attend Teresa's miracle count. Normally the process of recognizing a saint takes decades or even centuries. But after Mother Teresa's death, Pope John Paul II waived a traditional five-year waiting period, initiating what some have called a "fast-track" canonization process. The first major step, the establishment of her "heroic virtue," proceeded quickly. However, verifiable reports of posthumous miracles have apparently been scarce. Teresa was beatified after the first one in 2003. But on Sep. 5 Teresa's successor, Sister Nirmala, told Agence France Presse that "We are waiting...
Percentage who have heard of Yves Saint Laurent...
Hermann insists that whatever designs YSL offers, it should?it must?adapt to choices women are making at the moment. "Monsieur Saint Laurent said, 'We are dressing the woman of the street,' meaning a real woman, not a woman who is in the dream of the designer," Hermann says. "If you look at what we are doing today, the girls and the bags [of course, the bags], are still reflective of that. But now women are choosing?choosing many lives?and we must be superaggressive and reactive to those choices...
...next passion was fashion, and it led her from summer jobs at the Yves Saint Laurent boutique in New York City to 16 years as a fashion editor at Vogue, where she did covers and influential shoots with photographers like Richard Avedon and Deborah Turbeville. There too she eyed the top prize. "I don't think you stay for 16 years and not want the ultimate say," Wang explains. When she realized she wasn't going to get it, that she would never be editor in chief, "I had to try to recover," she says...