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...tiny contingent in Iraq would stand by the U.S. as "long as it takes." One newspaper called the base announcement the most positive development in Romania since World War II. Another editorialized that that it was a "gift" that Romanians had "awaited with more anxiety than the arrival of Saint Nicholas...
...Tokyo designer Tao Kurihara, 32, has quietly grabbed the fashion world's eye with her delicate corsets and innovative handkerchief-inspired trench coats. A protégé of Rei Kawakubo, Tao graduated from London's Central Saint Martins design school before going to work for Comme des Garçons. She is among a handful of designers to watch in Paris...
...When Italian-born designer Stefano Pilati stepped into his boss Tom Ford's shoes at the venerable French house of Yves Saint Laurent, the fashion pack wasn't sure what to expect. Three seasons later, Pilati has put the iconic brand back on the style map with cutting-edge ideas and a slew of hot accessories, including this season's must-have purple suede or leopard-print platform shoes. Next up in the Pilati look book: matador style, as in ruffled collars, high-waisted pants and a blood red?based color palette...
...frees the reader from judging. People who have heard of Rousseau sometimes feel compelled to stake out one of two positions on his personal failings. Either he was an unbearably nasty man who, by sheer happenstance, wrote books that have inspired humanity for two centuries, or he was a saint pushed into his crimes by the cruel circumstances of his age and the treachery of his so-called friends. This biography lays out Rousseau’s entire collection of sins against, and services to, humanity. He was not nasty and was not a saint. Ascribing simplistic judgments to such...
Hardcover Fiction 1. "Shalimar the Clown" Salman Rushdie 2. "Trouble with Poetry" Billy Collins 3. "Memories of my Melancholy Whores" Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez 4. "On Beauty" Zadie Smith 5. "The Sea" John Banville 6. "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" Laila Lalami 7. "The Saint of Lost Things" Christopher Castellani 8. "Gilead" Marilynne Robinson 9. "New and Selected Poems" Volume 2 Mary Oliver 10. "Myth of You and Me" Leah Steward Hardcover Nonfiction 1. "Team of Rivals" Doris Kearns Goodwin 2. "Schooling America" Patricia Graham 3. "Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" Benjamin Friedman 4. "Year of Magical...