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...color sense." Dorsla explains that unlike in New York, where black is a fashion staple (a code she encountered upon arriving at the Fashion Institute of Technology), in West Africa, vibrant colors are fashion-forward. Unique colorings and mixed textures result as different fabrics react unpredictably to a two-step dye process, making many of her creations one-of-a-kind. Her dye expertise was born out of necessity as a small shop owner since larger dye houses only handle wholesale quantities. Scarves can be purchased for the head, neck, or cumber bands...
...spent the next two days in the hospital, and during that time I didn't hear one person mention the presidential election. Televisions were on, but they were either showing old movies or afternoon talk shows that were more concerned with teenage girls who sass their mothers...
...sure that's true. I believe in a different idea about politics: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." (I'll let you guess who said that.) But the way politics has evolved in the last two decades has debased the very idea that it can have meaning in our lives. And that is sad. High office is a public trust, and so many have squandered that trust. Most people today see public servants as serving their own ambition, not the public...
...name most of his White House staff, and by the time he heads to Washington on Monday he'll have only drawn raves for surprising no one at all with his picks so far. The final piece of the foreign policy puzzle: defense secretary, for which the top two names are Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge and former senator Dan Coats. It's already sparked the first "reasonable men can disagree" fight of the Bush administration, with Cheney pulling for Coats and Powell urging Ridge, the pro-choicer who might double as Bush's first dare to the religious right...
...friend of mine in Gaza today attended the 13th-anniversary rally of Hamas along with tens of thousands of Palestinians. The message there was to continue the armed struggle, and that the killings suffered on the Palestinian side should also be felt on the Israeli side. From these two examples, you can seen the mood in the West Bank and Gaza is not pro-talks. Arafat would face difficulties if he tried to make a deal now. After the meeting with Ben Ami, I asked a senior Palestinian official what had happened there. He told me, off the record, that...