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...fault in this systematic degradation of our nation's religious foundation. Indeed the parties that should be punished are Judge Thompson [the U.S. district court judge who ordered the monument's removal] and secularists that would abandon the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of religious expression and protection of state sovereignty. Steven G. Poyzer Canandaigua...
Daniel Benjamin is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Steven Simon is senior analyst at the Rand Corp. They are the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House...
...Steven Lipscomb, creator of the World Poker Tour, changed all that by embedding a lipstick camera in each player's table position. Suddenly, when the players tilted their cards up for a surreptitious glance, they also flashed the TV audience, who then got to watch them lie to the other stone-faced liars at the table. "We made this into a spectator sport," says Lipscomb. "Now when you watch a World Poker Tour show, you feel like you're in the seat making a million-dollar decision on every hand...
...wield the kind of power that photographers have when it comes to getting a message across. In turn, one ad campaign or magazine cover can put a photographer on the map and lead to coveted multimillion-dollar editorial contracts and ad campaigns, such as the ones that have made Steven Meisel and Patrick Demarchelier household names. This season Louis Vuitton's ubiquitous Jennifer Lopez ads have catapulted a young duo from London, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, to the top of fashion photography's short list...
Conditions improved in fits and starts. In the early 1980s, after repeatedly being told by agencies that her Puerto Rican looks were "too ethnic," Talisa Soto managed to break through, but only when photographers Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel insisted on working with her. The late 1980s and early '90s proved promising as a whole class of black models was able to thrive. Naomi Campbell was among the first models of any race to be anointed a "supermodel," and African-American models Beverly Peele, Karen Alexander, Tyra Banks and Veronica Webb all worked consistently. In 1992 Webb became the first...