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Civil wars, as a general rule, don't announce�themselves when they arrive. But how else to label what Iraqis witnessed in their streets last week? What other term could describe the sight of armed and angry Shi'ite mobs rampaging through Baghdad and other cities, dragging Sunnis into the streets and executing them, looting their homes and burning down their mosques? The proximate cause of the violence was the bombing of al-Askari, the sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, but that attack could only partially account for the hatreds unleashed. A government-imposed curfew briefly interrupted the slaughter...
...early days of Italian ready-to-wear when Giorgio Armani stood on one side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the artsier Prada label with the kind of slick vulgarity that made him a fashion champion...
...figured, why not have a green label so it will match? All customers will notice the green for the Hamas flag." NADIM KHOURY, owner of Taybeh Brewing Company, the only brewery in the Palestinian territories, on his plans to release a non-alcoholic beer to mark the ascendance of the embattled region's Hamas-led government
...days of Italian ready-to-wear when Giorgio Armani stood on one side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the more artsy Prada label with the kind of slick vulgarity that made him a fashion champion. This season there were new players at both Gucci and Jil Sander. In her second season at Gucci, creative director Frida Giannini embraced Ford's sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period...
Before it became the modern label for an ardent arguer, the devil's advocate was an esteemed position within the Catholic hierarchy. These trained skeptics were dispatched by the Vatican to assess candidates for sainthood. They interviewed witnesses, evaluated miracles and analyzed evidence; occasionally they helped build a case for canonization, but more often they dismantled...