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...Pakistan, creating such a system will require Aziz to overcome several important challenges. Above all, Aziz must make a lasting peace with India, even at the cost of painful compromises. Without such a peace, Pakistan will always be ruled, in one form or another, by men in uniform, and the mud-brick curtain we have erected to our east will continue to deny us our largest potential market and source of human and cultural exchange...
...Working Wardrobe: Memories of Royal Occasions 1945-1972," which is on display at Kensington Palace in London through July, 2005. The exhibition features 12 couture outfits worn by Queen Elizabeth II and celebrates Her Majesty's diverse and sometimes quirky style, from the somewhat drab Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform she wore during World War II to the glamorous black velvet evening gown she wore to the opening of The Battle of the River Plate in 1956, where she met Marilyn Monroe. Also in the exhibition is the full-length black lace dress with matching veil the Queen wore in keeping...
...cakewalk. She will most probably spend her five-month sentence at a minimum-security "prison farm" in Danbury, Conn., just 20 miles from her home in Westport. Like other inmates at the facility, where hotel queen Leona Helmsley served time for tax evasion, Stewart will wear a khaki uniform and black, steel-toed shoes and work 7 1/2 hours a day for about 12¢ an hour. "I'm used to all kinds of hard work," Stewart said. "I'm not afraid whatsoever...
...them--the small, contained blazes at the end of the cigarettes he chain-smoked through his angry, comic diatribes, like the one-man show No Cure for Cancer. Yet here he is, backstage at the set of his new TV series, in a New York City fire-department (F.D.N.Y.) uniform, picking at a plate of chicken with rice and beans, talking earnestly about his cousin Jeremiah Lucey, a real-life fireman in Worcester, Mass...
...lionization of fire fighters tends to overlook. "Shows like Third Watch are corny, formulaic soap operas," Quinn says. The Rescue Me team is conscious of being more real, more unsparing, morewellcable. Looking over posters for the ad campaign backstage, Leary rejects one that has the main characters in uniform, lined up, gazing upward. "Too heroic," he says. "That looks like a CBS show...