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...most importantly, they're willing to shed their blood for each other. The Pashtun have a long history of uniting to face a common, external threat. They held up Alexander the Great for years - if for no other reason than pure belligerence. Something like that seems to be happening today. In February, the Taliban organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to put aside their differences, and combine forces to fight NATO in Afghanistan. What incited the alliance was the Obama Administration's plans to send an additional 17,000 troops. (Read "The Truth About Talibanistan...
...timely that Crazy Love is released right after Chris Brown and Rihanna's relationship has seized the public's attention. What can we learn from the torrent of headlines? It's a strange blessing that this story has played out because there needs to be a spotlight shed on domestic violence. They're giving the country a great education about what domestic violence is really like because neither of them fit many of the stereotypes people hold on domestic violence. I have a lot of sympathy for both Chris Brown and Rihanna and in some ways people are right...
...Cheever reached his teens, the shoe business was tanking, and his father was increasingly drunk and adrift. To make ends meet, his mother opened a gift shop that Cheever would describe as "an abysmal humiliation," at least for him. The big house would be lost anyway; his mother would shed her feckless husband and eventually drink herself to death - a motif in the family story...
...recent study conducted at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute may shed light on genetic risk factors for developing cancers...
...school Valentino declares that his gift is "to design and to create dresses. I always did this. I am not capable to do anything else. I am a disaster in everything else." In his climactic show, which everyone seems to know is his last, his admirers shed tears as they congratulate him. Karl Lagerfeld, another king designer-dinosaur, tells Valentino, "Compared to this, the rest of us are making rags." Shortly after the show, Permira announces that the 35-year-old Alessandra Facchinetti will be the new couturier for the house of Valentino...