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Although he kept a journal and dabbled in journalism and the theater, McCourt spent most of the next 30 years teaching English and creative writing in New York City schools for a modest salary. He had a natural flair for it. On his very first day in the classroom, one of his young charges threw a sandwich at another kid. McCourt picked it up and ate it in front of the class, while the students watched, stunned. He had taught his first lesson: an object lesson in what it means to survive starvation...
Fleur Cowles, 101, edited Flair, an innovative magazine that pioneered the use of pop-ups and cutouts during its brief one-year run. A socialite, a presidential envoy and an artist, Cowles was known as "America's Million Dollar Girl" and won international honors for her paintings...
...BRIC meeting at the same place, much of the non-Western world's geopolitical muscle is now rubbing shoulders in the shadow of the Urals. And the Iranian President, who never shies from making bold pronouncements, was not going to miss an opportunity to let loose his usual rhetorical flair. Soon after landing, Ahmadinejad launched a broadside at the fortunes of the West, especially America's, in the wake of the ravages of the global recession and the military quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It is absolutely obvious that the age of empires has ended," said Ahmadinejad, "and its revival...
...press reports on the house's failures blamed the designer's underperforming stores in New York City and Las Vegas. But at the heart of the Lacroix saga is an unsuccessful perfume launch that dates back to 1990, and his continuing inability to translate his unique high-end fashion flair into more accessible products, like fragrance, lipstick and accessories. As a result, Arnault sold the brand in 2005 to the Falic Group, a Florida-based business known for its Duty Free Americas chain. (See pictures of very large diamonds at LIFE.com...
While oil revenues were flowing, sovereign wealth funds acquired foreign assets with the flair of peacocks. The humility that typified the past was supplanted by conspicuous consumption. Yes, all that infrastructure and new property that was built still exists - but its quality and engineering is, in many cases, dubious. (See pictures of migrant workers in the Gulf...