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Saint Laurent, perennially melancholy, makes no secret of his dismay at the industry's reverence of marketing over craftsmanship. "I have nothing in common with this new world of fashion, which has been reduced to mere window dressing," he told Paris Match. "Elegance and beauty have been banished." But he and his business partner and sometime lover Pierre Berge are leaving a garden they helped plant. The 172 Rive Gauche boutiques they opened worldwide were the first to make French style available to the reasonably wealthy as well as the obscenely rich, and Saint Laurent lent his name to sunglasses...
...secret that many blacks either avoid the word entirely or permit its use within their community as a synonym for "soul brother." They bristle when whites use it, even in jest. But, as Kennedy observes, these long-established rules are changing because record and TV companies have discovered that there's gold in racial slurs. Thanks to gangsta rap and the vulgar comic routines of a generation of Richard Pryor wannabes, the N word is blasted onto the airwaves with such mind-numbing frequency that even white people believe they have permission to mimic the way blacks...
...Guardian commentator Hugo Young was even more forthright, warning that "Guantanamo could be where America and Europe part company." He writes: "Secret hearings in military tribunals, of EU citizens who might face execution, will offend every European instinct. If that's what happens, even short of the execution factor, America can expect its own long drawn-out vengeance on al-Qaeda to be matched by a European public opinion increasingly roused against it. For, contrary to the myth of Anglo-America's unique respect for individual liberties, the continental ethic of human rights is even stronger...
...General Motors touts the CTS as a BMW fighter, and for once, they may be able to sustain the claim. Its 3.2 liter V6 engine is tied to one of the smoothest, tightest automatic 5 speed transmissions around (secret: it's the same transmission offered on the Bimmer 5-series) and the suspension is tuned like a cherished Stradivarius. This baby hums. Best of all: the CTS starts at a mere $29,990 - nicely competitive with its top competitors, the Lexus ES300, the Audi A4 and the BMW 3-series. And the only reason a cop would saunter over...
...Elijah told us that he really hates answering questions, so we thought we’d prank him,” said Benjamin F. Dougan, incoming president of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...