A trio of obituaries evokes a trio of anecdotes, about: Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Tom Snyder.

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Newly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy is an avid runner. To French critics and intellectuals, running for health is right-wing, individualist, Anglo-Saxon (and very American). These are, of course, all bad things.

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So how can the marketing be massaged to sell the genuine and to inhibit the sales of the counterfeit? And how can the conduct of public figures be prevented from implying that the fakes, as grungy bling, as chic trash, are seemingly becoming respectable?

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I’ve always preferred to travel light. I used to make overnight business trips with just a briefcase roomy enough for the change of shirt and underwear, along with papers and a book or two. Once, in college, I had a sort of pullover nylon jacket with an internal pouch in front, and that proved capacity […]

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Fashion models and stylish Hollywood starlets have become notorious for bad girl, diva behavior while charitable works and humanitarian ventures have catapulted others to fame. Dress size has yet to tarnish a fashion icon’s reputation–until this year, when emaciated young actresses and fashion models began to appear in increasing numbers in the tabloid press.
Their dramatically […]

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