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...fashion house he created are called, it's the very traditional kind: the long lines and soft fabrics of Hollywood Golden Age couture. From 1964, when he captured Jacqueline Kennedy's attention and began clothing her in a monarch widow's blacks and whites, the little man with the slim, feline smile has outfitted a host of high-end one-name celebrities - Liz, Diana, Julia - and the Euro-royalty whose tastes influenced the decisions of retail buyers, country club wives and the more ambitious shopgirls...
...traders in AIG's financial-products division, a reckless band of wealthy incompetents who made bets they could not pay for, leaving the American taxpayer on the hook for as much as $173 billion in emergency funds - an enormous sum that works out to about $600 for every man, woman and child in America. "How do they justify this outrage?" Obama asked rhetorically, with only the slightest tinge of outrage in his own voice. (Read "Obama's Challenge: Containing the AIG Bonus Outrage...
...uploading a photo, and linking to their profiles on other social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Then, rather than the party selecting which candidates to field in a traditional closed-door process, the public decides through text message voting. "The Internet has cut out the middle man in many areas of life, and we're doing the same with politics," Judge told a hundred supporters in Westminster on Monday. "It used to be 'one man, one vote,' but now it's 'one mobile, one vote.'" (See the 50 best websites...
...Still, Khatami's supporters had tried desperately to persuade their man to stay in the race rather than concede to Moussavi, who has more centrist supporters and has fewer opponents among the fundamentalists who dominate Iran's political system; while all the newspapers associated with Khatami's original reform movement have been closed down, for example, Moussavi was recently given permission to start a paper...
...medical care it needed. But when he addressed the court on Monday, the accused spent more time talking about himself. "I had a very difficult childhood," Fritzl told the court, his voice trembling. "My mother didn't want me. I was beaten." His attorney, Rudolf Mayer, added that a "man who put so much effort into keeping two families cannot be called a monster," urging the jurors to "keep emotion out of this." (See pictures of Austria's house of horrors...