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- Fashion Industry Rallies to Aid Designer in Trouble
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  How the deal got accomplished is a story about an industry that operates well outside the norms of 21st century capitalism. The fashion industry is a gigantic $300 billion business made up of public companies as well as independent fashion houses. But it also functions as a neighborhood, where relationships and time-tested handshakes go a long way in determining how things get done.
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- Taking it off for peace | Salon Life
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  Can the united struggle of 14 women of widely varying backgrounds to reduce the width of their waists advance peace in the Middle East?
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- Obituary: Kurt Vonnegut, satirist and pessimist
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  The American writer Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11 at the age of 84 from injuries to his brain suffered during a fall several weeks earlier. Vonnegut wrote 14 novels, three collections of short stories, and a smaller number of essays. He was a popular writer, particularly among the young and disaffected.
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- Tough titties | Salon Life
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  Jessica Valenti, author of the new book "Full Frontal Feminism," discusses sex positivity, activism and boob flashing as a feminist statement.
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- Fashion star 'preyed on young models'
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  The paparazzi who once pursued him as a member of LA's celebrity circus are now chasing him as the alleged perpetrator of 32 counts of rape, sexual battery, lewd acts on a child and other alleged crimes against a dozen women - all of them models - aged between 14 and 23.
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- Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84
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  So it goes.... dead at 84 from injuries sustained in a fall.
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- Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
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  Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died Wednesday. He was 84.
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thedude comments on:
Film: Where is Osama bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock never ceases to impress me… i just saw Super Size Me, which was amazingly insightful, and now he’s making a documentary that investigates the war on terrorism? well done indeed

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10:55 am 4/16/08
rwtaylor comments on:
Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?

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5:31 pm 9/30/07
Sandyenglish comments on:
Faces from the edge of the Earth - OregonLive.com

This article could do with some more images of her work.

http://www.gwennseemel.com/paintings.htm

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6:05 am 7/16/07
Kristy comments on:
Faces from the edge of the Earth - OregonLive.com

Full disclosure: the artist is a friend of mine from high school… :)

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12:00 pm 7/15/07
Jeff comments on:
Tough titties | Salon Life

Kristy – methinks you’ll like this story from Rome

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10:59 pm 4/23/07