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...other people and my desire to dress in a way I enjoy. When I go home, my sister (who now wears almost no make-up and has become fond of sweatpants) gives my wardrobe the ultimate tribute-she asks to borrow everything in it. I take what some might sniff at as fashion risks. But, as my hair brightly demonstrates, I'm proud of what I wear...
...been one to be bashful. One can read his memoir My Dark Places to get the full story on how he whored, drank and drugged most of his youth away. He readily talks about his heady days of breaking into houses on the other side of the track to sniff rich women's panties. Candor is not a surprise to anyone familiar with his work...
...country is in charge of patching up brouhahas these days? I can envision a richly paneled and heavily chandeliered room in a grand building. French and English diplomats are glaring at one another from either end of a long mahogany table, their stony silence broken by an occasional aggressive sniff. Another diplomat enters. He has a conspicuously soothing manner. He's an American. You can tell because he's carrying a bottle of disinfectant...
...people here seem to do things because they feel it's expected of them." "Hmm," my interviewer would smile, "I hear it gets particularly bad around this time of the year." Sooner or later, my interviewers got a whiff of my real interests, the way police dogs sniff out two kilos of hash in a carry...
...slightest sniff of scandal can be a death warrant. The director of Jordan's National Institute of Forensic Medicine, Dr. Mu'men Hadidi, says that in 80% of the cases in which he conducts a hymenal exam, which is routine in Jordan when a girl has gone missing, the same girl will be returned to him soon after as a corpse, even if she proved to be a virgin. "Once the story is out in the community," says Asma Khader, a lawyer and feminist, "they have to kill." Forbidden sex isn't always the issue. Marrying or divorcing against...