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...would say, we’ve got a nice base of younger girls who are wearing our clothes in their twenties. You know, girls who dress up and want to be a little more sophisticated. I’d say, our most successful bracket from these trunk shows have probably been women in late thirties, forties, and early-to-mid-fifties...
...everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue, and the other an equally radiant white. The two bodies of paint meet in a momentous curve that swoops from the South wing’s top floor to the base of the North wing. In a capital city full of garish wonders, Sayansi must surely occupy a top spot. Perhaps, though, the decoration was merely a way of declaring, “I must be reckoned with,” which is surely true in my instance.So, I enter...
...Nations disagrees), and that gives Hizballah a pretext to continue bearing arms against Israel on the grounds it is trying to liberate occupied Lebanese land. Arab officials are suggesting that if the U.S. package deal were to return the Shebaa Farms to Lebanon, perhaps to be used for the base of the NATO force, that would allow the Lebanese government to demand the deployment of the army to replace Hizballah guerrillas, and blame Hizballah - and Iran - for blocking a solution to the crisis. Hizballah would also be able to save face by proclaiming Shebaa liberated by its efforts...
...primaries to the left in 2008." In that case, he and others worry, the kind of middle-class-oriented ideas that were being offered by the DLC as its "American Dream Initiative" would likely get lost in the larger political currents. "The question is," he says, "will the activist base allow the nominee to reach out to the center with these ideas, or else be consumed by their opposition...
...Reed forgot his own lessons. In the face of incredibly damning evidence, he insisted that he hadn't done anything wrong and that he didn't know he was consorting with a friend nicknamed Casino Jack or taking money from gambling interests. He thought he could convince his base that they shouldn't believe their eyes and ears, that they should trust him instead. In the end, not enough...