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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shit,” and many truculent Steelers fans made threats on her life. The whole time this was happening, however, Sienna was wearing Mod dresses and even she, normally a very attractive woman, looked awful, which leads me to the conclusion that not only are these shift-like tunic things extremely hard to wear, but they also, much like cursed mah jongg tiles, bring bad luck on all aspects of one’s life. Wear them with opaque tights and approach them with caution.Large Sleeves:I inevitably associate large puffy sleeves with this one production of Silas Marner...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fashion Forecast: Stormy | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

Sitting cross-legged on pillows that they had brought from their hotel rooms, the crowd of 700 neatly dressed middle-aged and middle-class couples were mesmerized by the tall, slender, blond woman in front of them. Dressed in a starched white Oriental tunic over gray sweat pants and sneakers, J.Z. Knight, 40, sat on a makeshift stage in a sturdy armchair surrounded by a veritable garden of lavender flowers. Her voice, almost preternaturally husky, seemed to take on a gamut of accents from European to Indian as she spouted a relentless stream of imperatives about self-reliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, the 35,000-Year-Old Man | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...jump in and help. After three months reporting on the fall of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, National Public Radio's Kandahar correspondent, Sarah Chayes, had had enough of watching the broken country stagger to its feet and decided to lend a hand. Donning the turban and long tunic of Kandahari men (the better to escape attention), she plunged into a new life helping the people of her adopted home. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban is her riveting story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writing Wrongs | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...thigh and butt area. Instead, try to find a tapered pair that allows you to indulge in the trend while still balancing out your ass. The good news is that most people look excellent in black leggings, because they are naturally slimming, especially under a longer piece like a tunic or a dress...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Bowties and Skinny Jeans | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...rebuild from this?" asks Sayyed Ali Hakim, a Shi'a cleric dressed in a long light brown tunic, leaning on his cane as he sat on a shaded sidewalk for a rest. He had shared the basement of his old traditional stone house with 70 other people, mainly family. The building above them was destroyed in the fighting and the terrified people hiding below were forced to ration food and water and sit it out. "It was a nightmare," he says. Similar tales are told by other survivors as they slowly trickle out of the underground refuges and make their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surveying the Damage in Bint Jbeil | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

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