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shooter Steven Meisel "confirms our life-long conviction that fashion photographers deep inside (
Vogue's "camwhore" photo spread mimics web video tarts
In the Vogue Italia photospread "Live on the Web," shooter Steven Meisel "confirms our life-long conviction that fashion photographers deep inside (sometimes not so deep) really wish they could be pornographers," observes the blog Fashion Addict Diary: Link to scans. http://hotbisexualmodel.blogspot.com/200 Vogue Italia 01/07 depicts "horny teens" engaging in simulated raunch before the watchful eyes of webcams. What's different here? The faux camsluts wear Balenciaga. Here's the spread excerpted on Vogue's website, but warning: seizure-inducing Flash abounds. Link. Oh, everybody's Cobrasnake these days. (Thanks, Susannah Breslin!) http://www.voguevanity.it/cont/060hvg/de posted by Xeni Jardin |
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The prodigious Mr. Libby, on the other hand, remembers all 79 “Star Trek” episodes. And their titles
Technically this is called the “Honey, I was too busy preparing the family tax return to think clearly when you asked about the lap dancers” defense. The prodigious Mr. Libby, on the other hand, remembers all 79 “Star Trek” episodes. And their titles, too. A Trial to Remember Who knew that 12 angry Americans could be so easy to come by — and a jury so difficult to assemble? “It took us all day to get six jurors qualified,” Judge Reggie M. Walton lamented last Thursday, after a contentious afternoon of voir dire in the Scooter Libby trial. Judge Walton had hoped to have seated his panel by then; selection took twice as long as expected. Opening arguments are scheduled for today, not the sort of trailer you would normally run before a State of the Union address. To some minds, a jury has not been the only thing missing from United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby. “In the most important sense, this is a case without a crime,” The Wall Street Journal reminded us over the weekend. An artful leap followed: “Yes, Mr. Libby is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, which are serious offenses.” ( Read more... ) |
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Jurors then listened intently as Mr. Libby is heard on tape testifying that he first learned about M
Mr. Wells, Mr. Libby’s chief defense lawyer, said that the charges against Mr. Libby amount to “a weak, paper-thin circumstantial case about ‘he said-she said’ Jurors then listened intently as Mr. Libby is heard on tape testifying that he first learned about Ms. Wilson in a conversation with Tim Russert of NBC on Thursday, July 10. Mr. Libby told the grand jury that he was taken aback by the news. Libby a Scapegoat, His Lawyer Tells JurorsWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — The chief defense lawyer for I. Lewis Libby Jr. told a jury today that his client was innocent of perjury and obstruction of justice charges and that White House officials had sought to make him a scapegoat in the investigation of the leak of a C.I.A. operative’s name to protect Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff. In his opening statement, Theodore V. Wells Jr., said that the unnamed White House officials wanted to protect Mr. Rove because they believed his survival as President Bush’s political adviser was crucial to saving the Republican Party. “Scooter Libby was to be sacrificed,” Mr. Wells told the jury on the trial’s first day, using the nickname of Mr. Libby, who was Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. It was important to keep Mr. Rove out of trouble because, Mr. Wells said, he was the “lifeblood” of the president’s political operation and “was most responsible for seeing the Republican Party stayed in office. He had to be protected.” ( Read more... ) |
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Robert William Pickton, 57, is accused of killing 26 women who were prostitutes and drug addicts in
But during the search, the authorities found an asthma inhaler, used syringes and documents belonging to Sereena Abotsway, one of dozens of prostitutes who had been reported missing over two decades. Before the trial, the evidence was deemed too much for one jury to handle, so the case was split up. Mr. Pickton faces six counts of first-degree murder in the trial that began Monday. He is to face the other 20 in a subsequent trial.  BCTV-Vancouver/Canadian Press, via Associated Press Robert William Pickton, 57, seen in a video image, is charged with killing 26 women, the largest number of serial killings in Canadian history. Grisly Details Bared as Serial Killing Trial Begins in Canada NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, Jan. 22 — The murder trial of the man accused of the largest number of serial killings recorded in Canada began here on Monday with grisly details of how the police found the dismembered hands and feet and severed heads of women on his pig farm. Robert William Pickton, 57, is accused of killing 26 women who were prostitutes and drug addicts in the roughest part of downtown Vancouver over the course of nearly a decade before his arrest in February 2002. He has pleaded not guilty. ( Read more... ) |
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The June 5 Initiative - the March of the Millions for Israeli-Palestinian peace - please distribute
*The June 5 Initiative* * * *International Support for Israeli-Palestinian Peace* * * *After 40 years - the time has come!* * * June 5 2007 will mark 40 years since the June 1967 war. On June 5 the The call for Israeli-Palestinian peace based on the “two-states for two This is a civil society initiative to be launched and supported by civil Efforts will be made to enlist the active support and involvement of We need your help and support. We need to create an internet based Please heed our call and sign up to be a volunteer for this initiative. *Name, location, position, telephone, fax, email and what you can do to *Gershon** Baskin**, Ph.D. P.O. Box 9321, Jerusalem 91092 |
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Liz Cheney on the War in Iraq: WashPost op ed 1/23/07
The only good news in this unbelievable screed is the word "former" in the identification of the author at the end of the op ed. That is progress. There must be widespread feelings of relief at the State Department. For someone previously holding a very senior position in the Near East bureau she shows an appalling ignorance of that region. The most outrageous statement is "America faces an existential threat." From terrorism? A tactic of the weak against the strong? She has adopted Israeli propaganda, that any actions by "terrorists" (that is, opponents of Israeli actions toward Palestinians) are an "existential threat." A threat to the existence of Israel! Give me a break. I leave you to choose which are the worst of the other exaggerations after that one. If the existence of the United States is threatened by terrorists we are in real trouble. But we are in much greater peril from people like this op ed author. *Retreat Isn't an Option* By Liz Cheney Sen. Hillary Clinton declared In fairness, Clinton, with her proposal for arbitrary caps on troop |
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The Barbarian Invasions (International: English title) (USA)
The Barbarian Invasions (International: English title) (USA) Invasion of the Barbarians (International: English title) MPAA: Rated R for language, sexual dialogue and drug content. Runtime: 99 min / Canada:112 min (DVD version) http://www.miramax.com/thebarbarianinva
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State Department Legal Adviser Joins the Blogers
State Department Legal Adviser Joins the Blogers Carmen Grayson wrote: --*Much enjoyed Mr Peck's sardonic "musings," they're spot-on, of course. His ironic humor is a relief from what, au fond, must be a near-despairing outrage. President Bashar Al Assad is no slouch in disdainful wit either-- complimenting our crack patrols at the Mexican border as role models for Syria vis-a-vis Iraq. * ** *John Bellinger, legal adviser to Secretary Rice, is putting himself out there on _a blog, for heavens sake! _ Mr. Bellinger is getting powerful, fundamental challenges over at www.opiniojuris.org from his legal cohort. * ** *I'm curious as to why Secretary Rice allows her legal adviser such an open public platform and what mystifies me even more, given the Administration's noxious position on these detainee issues, is what motivates *John* B. *Bellinger* III to engage these scholars. Or is the S.D. engaging in a subcategory of public diplomacy?* ** *Any light you or your friends could shed on this public first (as far as I know) would be appreciated. * RVK response: -- Robert V. Keeley |
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