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...voice that recalls the Strokes, but without the ennui. On pop-inflected songs like Puesto, it's impossible not to sing "woo-ooh" right along with the chorus. That doesn't mean the band has no bite. Smart lyrics take enough stinging jabs at kleptomaniac pols and the Argentine upper class to keep the band sounding authentically rebellious...
...dresses at Fendi, plastic corsets at Dolce & Gabbana and even articulated gold-colored robot leggings at Balenciaga (right). There was a hint of the high-tech future in Hussein Chalayan's remote-controlled dresses, as they shifted from long to short. (Disappearing hemlines are also a trend--most are upper-thigh high). And the '80s notion that fashion will be about athletic wear in ever more technologically advanced fabrics still has plenty of currency...
...Hastert and his forces have been trumpeting their charges against the Democrats, a whisper campaign has been launched in Washington to blame an internal culprit: a "velvet mafia" at the upper levels of G.O.P. leadership on Capitol Hill. Foley, that line of argument went, had been protected by gay staff members like Fordham, Trandahl and others whose names were being widely circulated. Says a top aide: "It looks like they may have tried to handle this among themselves because they were similarly situated...
...share of crossed fingers and frayed nerves. But nowhere will disappointment be as prevalent as in the freshman yards. With 78 candidates for eight UC seats, a mere 10.3 percent of first-year hopefuls will see their campaigns end in triumph, as compared to over 50 percent for their upper-class counterparts. To students only months removed from the college admissions rat-race, those odds might seem uncannily familiar. “Sounds like they’re trying to get into Harvard again,” said Patrick M. Mulvaney ’10. In fact, the odds...
...Courting Missouri's Moms In one of three upper South statesthat Democrats need to win to take control of the Senate, the gender gap could make the difference