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...should be no surprise that the sportswear powerhouse has thrown its weight behind the women's market. (For one thing, there are millions to be saved in endorsements.) When Nike started its women's division in 2000, women generated about $1.5 billion in annual global sales, or 20% of the company's total. The goal is to boost that to one-third, via products such as the Visi Havoc, a $70 sling-back, and the Air Rift, a split-toe design that has been spotted on actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Gwyneth Paltrow...
...bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton nationwide riots in which Muslims were surrounded, terrorized and massacred; rape was thrown in for evil measure in cities like Surat in polarized Gujarat, where it was also videotaped as proof of rapine conquest...
...scenes, the Captain, while haranguing against women, flails the now stripped-down coat rack—a mutated phallic symbol—only to have it cajoled away from him. His rifles too, that had established order and power in the his office, are emptied by the Nurse, and thrown to the ground in disgust by the Captain...
Aside from the fertility clinic’s requirement that donors be Ivy Leaguers, Harvard itself has very little to do with the book’s plot. There is enough of Boston thrown in to make the setting recognizable—a little Beacon Hill, a little Boston Common—but the book could just have easily been set at any other prestigious coed university with cash-desperate grad students...
...gasp!) isn’t wearing anything but her bra and a pair of tight jeans. They’ve each got this badass, I-could-out-drink-you-and-go-home-with-your-man look on their faces. Hot damn, there’s even a boy toy thrown in for added measure. The message: we’re not bony, but that doesn’t mean we’re not beautiful. Great, I say. Shimmy your voluptuous self out there in clothes meant to show off, instead of cover up, whatever you?...