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...1990s, containment of America took a different form. With the acquiescence of a Democratic Administration uncomfortable with American power, silk ropes were fashioned to tie down Gulliver: a myriad of treaties, protocols and prohibitions on everything from carbon emissions to land mines to nuclear testing. With the advent of the Bush Administration, contemptuous of these restraints, that would no longer work. Enter al-Qaeda...
Howard said the same day she found out about her impending Ad Board case, the Tibetan Assocation of Boston honored her with a white silk scarf called a katag, a sign of respect in Tibet...
...Playboy at 50: both are aging rou?s, the kind Dedini used to draw in his cartoons. The iconic bunny (a rabbit in an ascot) is today as much an anachronism as the New Yorker?s Eustace Tilley (a fop with a monocle). Or as Hefner, in his silk pajamas and red smoking jacket, when billionaires wear T shirts. Hef, with his interchangeable sex partners (two are twins) and his trademark pipe traded in for Diet Pepsi and Viagra, has become what we are all in danger of morphing into as we grow old: parodies of our younger selves...
...into two burgeoning trends. Micro fashion lines, like Lefton's, are sprouting up all over as more and more young designers turn to the Web to showcase their wares while they wait to break into the big stores. They need only a website and the ability to design (or silk-screen). "My 'store' is literally under my desk," says Lefton, who is just starting to approach shops about carrying her goods...
...PRADA In the fall, trendy girls wore Prada's riding boots (from $925) with floral silk dresses. We don't know what they'll pair them with next year, but we do know that the boots are a classic and won't go out of style anytime soon...