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...designers. The magazine is commemorating its quarter-century with i-Dentity, a touring exhibition that charts its progress from parochial house journal of London's punk movement to a global fashion title featuring such figures as Madonna, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue, and designers including the likes of Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In the process, the retrospective also manages to showcase two and a half decades of popular culture's cutting edge. The exhibition will be at Beijing's Long March Space gallery from May 20-31, before traveling to Paris and other cities in the fall...
...young, some tired from a night or weekend spent in the park to get ready for the march, which will take this crowd a few miles east to Chicago?s Grant Park. ?This is the way that America was built,? said Ivan Miller, 43, a criminal justice student at Westwood College near O?Hare International Airport. ?I?m a black man, and I don?t take offense that the spotlight is on this one population. That?s what America?s about - people coming together, struggling together from all different cultures...
Everything is for sale on nanjing Road. Shanghai's version of Fifth Avenue offers diamond rings from Tiffany, halter tops from Vivienne Westwood, even fresh sea urchin flown in from northern Japan. One of the most coveted items, however, is a certificate handed out for every 150 yuan ($19) donated for the construction of an $18 million, 2,000-kg gold Buddha at Nanjing Road's Jing'an Temple. The donation certificates are flying off shelves faster than Gucci wallets. Since 2002, the temple has collected 180,700 contributions from people who want to exchange part of their newfound wealth...
DIED. Arthur Hertzberg, 84, contrarian Jewish scholar and civil rights activist; near Westwood, N.J. After Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, he caused a stir by calling for a Palestinian state. Yet when the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and peace activist, attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real...
...afternoon not long after retiring, psychotherapist Bernice Bratter, 67, of Westwood Hills, Calif., was feeling isolated and restless. Book in hand, she headed to a nearby park. As she was reading there, a homeless man sat down beside her. "All I could think was, 'Is this what my life has come to? Hanging out with the homeless?'" she says...