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...black Armand Basi bubble dress with the yellow flower brooch? The cunning orange sheath with the pleated waist that she wore to receive the heir to the Japanese throne? Or the one-shouldered white cocktail number that she paired this summer in Mallorca with the chunky necklace? It wasn't that long ago that Letizia Ortiz, 37, tended to dress in the anchorwoman's power blazers and pastel cardigans. But somewhere along the line, the former journalist has become a fashion icon, coming in number two on Vanity Fair's renowned Best Dressed List for 2009. That's what being...
According to Basi, all of the students who left the University of Missouri havesaid they plan to return to the campus in January. American University spokesperson Sedmak said the students on leave have all completed coursework from past terms, and that they are prepared to return in the spring...
...University of Missouri, spokesperson Christian Basi said that on a list of reasons for withdrawal given to school officials by students, safety concerns expressed by students themselves rank of least importance...
...Instead, Basi said students have cited family pressures, as well as some students’ inability to concentrate on studies while dealing with the emotional aftermath of the attacks, as their reasons for departing...
Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian man of letters, a newspaper columnist, novelist, poet and author of the television show Basi and Company, about a young man always in and out of trouble. But in the '90s, he quit his TV career to lead a campaign against oil drilling that was devastating the lands of his Ogoni tribe. His crusade was derailed when his movement was implicated in the killing of four pro-government chiefs. Despite global protests and his pleas of innocence, he was hanged for murder. But he is not forgotten, as shown by the sign...