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Then again, model Agyness Deyn was spotted recently in a leather ruff and farthingale by British designer Gareth Pugh. Silhouettes aside, designers this fall are offering a king's ransom of silk, satin, fur and jewel-like ornamentation that alone evoke the Tudor spirit. Oscar de la Renta showed ermine and chinchilla shrugs atop embroidered tulle. For Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey referenced armor with a collection of austere leather coats, metal-studded dresses and black gauntlets that would not seem out of place in the Tower of London. Rodarte featured shimmering gold dresses fit for a nascent Queen...
...comes as no surprise, really, that some of the most sought-after scents this fall look like real gems. Leiber's eponymous first scent?bearing the refined shape of an Art Deco diamond, left?was designed for a "woman who appreciates what a little luxury can do for your spirit," says creative director Frank Zambrelli. Emporio Armani's Diamonds bottle, right, is sharply faceted, for the more audacious...
...established himself as more strict and inclined to separatism than his father, the Prophet Rulon Jeffs, who died in 2002. Warren Jeffs, who inherited many of his father's estimated 75 wives, inveighed against newspapers, television, the Internet. Beware of too much laughter, he told followers, which causes the spirit of God to leak from your body. He outlawed basketball games and television and holidays, and when a child was mauled by a Rottweiler, he ordered that all the dogs in town be rounded up and killed. Men who fell out of favor were excommunicated, their wives reassigned, their children...
...years earlier, blacks - even if British-born - were not allowed to compete for the national championship. When Turpin pulled off a remarkable upset against the highly favored American - only Robinson's second loss in 135 fights - he seemed more than ever an emblem of the so-called British bulldog spirit. Within four years, though, he was facing rape charges in New York and being described by an American prosecuting attorney as a "jungle beast in human form." The man who had once received $200,000 to take on Robinson ended up working in a junkyard and committing suicide...
...what is on the other side. From a philosophical and theological standpoint, I would like to suggest that NDEs involve an overwhelming arousal of the imagination, memory and emotions that heightens our capacity to encounter our deep, archetypal humanity. NDEs may very well be a personal encounter with our spirit and even the spirits of our loved ones. NDEs suggest that our spirit is a mysterious force that sustains us through crises and can bedazzle us with experiences we find difficult to explain. Glen Morrison, Lecturer in Theology, University of Notre Dame, Perth...