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From Scottish Kilts to Camden punk, tartan has long been the fabric of choice when tribute is paid to the Queen. Now designers and retailers as diverse as Alexander McQueen and L.L. Bean are indulging in the traditional textile. Kate Spade's wool boot is boxed out in plaid, as is Estée Lauder's jeweled compact, illustrating the evolution of this onetime preppy look. What was once campus chic is now runway cool. Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati even featured it for spring. But who better than Burberry, epic old English purveyor of plaid, to square...
...front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans - in just one collection point of the city, the authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Eighty kilometers south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. To the south, in Galle...
...Pope said what needed to be said, period. Radical Muslims have insulted, abused and murdered many non-Muslims and otherwise made their lives uncertain and dangerous for decades. It is about time a world leader stood up and called a spade a spade. Bill Evans Bainbridge Island, Washington...
...Pope said what needed to be said, period. Radical Muslims have insulted, abused, murdered and otherwise endangered the lives of many non-Muslims for decades. It is about time a world leader stood up and called a spade a spade...
Dolly Mascareñas' article "The Raúl I Know" [Aug. 14], about Raúl Castro, read like a fluff piece on a movie star. The Castro brothers have murdered, lied and driven their country into economic despair. It's time to call a spade a spade. Michael J. Pendall Albany...