Police clash with protesters
as Greeks fight cuts
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Reuters, by Renee Maltezou & Ingrid Melander
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 5:33:19 PM
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Athens - Police clashed with stone-throwing youths in Athens on Thursday as tens of thousands of strikers protested against draconian cutbacks aimed at pulling Greece out of a debt crisis shaking the euro zone. In one central square hundreds of protesters hurled sticks and stones at riot police, who responded by baton-charging the crowd and firing several rounds of teargas. The clashes came after more than 20,000 protesters marched through Athens beating drums and chanting slogans
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Why Lindsay Lohan's at war
with an Oakville toddler
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Toronto Star, by Nicole Baute
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 5:27:41 PM
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McAllister Kerr is much more articulate on television. In person, his vocabulary consists of mainly nouns, most of them words for familiar objects and people – Mama, Daddy, Grandpa, soccer, camera, bus. Typical toddler stuff. But on TV, where he stars in a series of commercials for the discount brokerage E-Trade, he's a smooth-talking party baby who takes control of his portfolio ''like a wolf''
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Good news for U.S.: Pakistan
spy chief, set to retire, to stay on
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McClatchy Newspapers, by Saeed Shah
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Posted By: RepublicusPrime- 3/11/2010 5:09:57 PM
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's powerful spy chief, who's important to the domestic campaign against Islamic extremists and his country's co-operation with the U.S.-led coalition in neighboring Afghanistan, will remain in office for another year, the government announced Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha was due to retire later this month as the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, and his additional year could help cement Islamabad's increasingly tough position against militants and improving relationship with the U.S.
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Thief uses dead toddler's ID
for tax write-off
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KOMO-TV [Seattle, WA], by Connie Thompson
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Posted By: SpinMaster- 3/11/2010 5:06:51 PM
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BLAINE - A local couple is outraged after finding out their daughter is being claimed as a tax write-off by a total stranger. Adding insult to injury - the baby is dead. The Whatcom County couple is still grieving. The couple contacted the Problem Solvers after the Internal Revenue Service rejected their electronic tax return. Jessica Struthers says she feels violated. "Because this is our daughter that has passed away," she said, fighting back tears. Last August, her 21-month-old daughter, Ava, drowned in the family's above-ground swimming pool in Blaine.
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Sharp Elbows, Cold Shoulders
Mark Biden Trip to Israel
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FOXNews.com, by Staff
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Posted By: JLoophole- 3/11/2010 5:06:27 PM
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Vice President Biden's trip to the Middle East -- meant to pave the way for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks -- is coming to a close, leaving in its wake a trail of stinging snubs, cringe-worthy blunders and one-word headlines in Israelis newspapers: "Embarrassment." If it were merely a series of typical "Biden'isms," it'd be one thing. But in a sign that U.S.-Israeli relations have cooled, the vice president and top Israeli officials spent the better part of the week poking each other in the eye.
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Court upholds 'under God'
in Pledge of Allegiance
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Associated Press, by Terence Chea
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/11/2010 5:04:28 PM
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SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected two legal challenges by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, who claimed the references to God disrespect his religious beliefs. "The Pledge is constitutional," Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the 2-1 ruling. "The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through
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House rejects bid to
pull troops from Afghanistan
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McClatchy Newspapers, by William Douglas
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Posted By: RepublicusPrime- 3/11/2010 5:00:16 PM
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives rejected a resolution Wednesday that called on President Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by year's end. However, the 65 to 356 vote highlighted the willingness of liberal Democrats to abandon the president on a major issue even as important votes loom on health care, and signaled that many in his party are weary of waging war. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., gave Democrats the freedom to vote their conscience on the resolution rather than muscling them to back Obama's war policy.
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Democrats Stop Trying To
Win Over Stupak, Pro-Life Dems
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Investor's Business Daily, by Ed Carson
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Posted By: slyscribe- 3/11/2010 4:58:06 PM
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Democratic leaders have given up trying to satisfy Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and the dozen or so House Dems who want strict language barring abortion funding in the health care bill, AP reports. A break on abortion would remove a major obstacle for Democratic leaders in the final throes of a yearlong effort to change health care in the United States. But it sets up a risky strategy of trying to round up enough Democrats
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Court Dismisses ACORN Suit
Against Hannah and James
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/11/2010 4:56:52 PM
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A state court in Baltimore has dismissed ACORN’s lawsuit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com LLC after the plaintiffs failed to serve the complaint on the defendants within Maryland’s 120-day limit. It was with great fanfare that ACORN, along with two recently-fired employees of its Baltimore office, sued last September over thesurreptitious taping of the employees advising O’Keefe and Giles on running a prostitution business out of a house. ACORN’s general counsel, Arthur Schwartz, told the Washington Post at the time that the defendants, young filmmakers O’Keefe and Giles, plus Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart.com LLC,
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Hard Times in the
Holy Land for Biden
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Fox News, by Michael Tobin
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/11/2010 4:50:27 PM
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Attempting to end his visit to Israel on a positive note, in his final speech, US Vice President Joe Biden stressed the enduring friendship between Israel and the United States. But it was impossible to ignore the bad blood which boiled to the surface on this visit. The headlines in the Hebrew press read that He’d been “embarrassed” by Israel, “The Slap heard Round the World”, read once newspaper. It was a reference to Israel’s announcement of new Jewish housing to be built in disputed East Jerusalem. Palestinians want that for the Capitol of their future state.
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Poll: Majority of Americans Believe Their
Kids' Textbooks Place Political
Correctness Above Accuracy
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Cybercast News Service, by Joe Schoffstall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 3/11/2010 4:46:00 PM
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A new Rasmussen Poll shows that 60 percent of Americans with children in elementary schools say most school textbooks are more concerned with presenting information in a politically correct manner than in accuracy. In a national survey conducted March 6-7, 1,000 adults were asked: “Are most school textbooks more concerned about accurately providing information or about presenting information in a politically correct manner?” Only 28 percent thought textbooks were more concerned with presenting information accurately.
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Wrong Bill At The Wrong Time
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Forbes, by Shikha Dalmia
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Posted By: afortiori- 3/11/2010 4:45:54 PM
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Even if Democrats extract the votes to put ObamaCare over the top, it will at best be a Pyrrhic victory for them. Regardless of the outcome, this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the rest of his term. So why didn't the Democrats pull back when they still had the chance? The reason is that both the Democratic Party and President Obama have mutually reinforcing blind spots that have rendered them incapable of seeing
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Lesbian teen back at Miss.
school after prom flap
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Associated Press, by Shelia Byrd
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Posted By: arkie- 3/11/2010 4:38:10 PM
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JACKSON, Miss. – An 18-year-old Mississippi lesbian student whose school district canceled her senior prom rather than allow her to escort her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo said she got some unfriendly looks from classmates when she reluctantly returned to campus Thursday. Constance McMillen said she didn't want to go back the day after the Itawamba County school board's decision, but her father told her she needed to face her classmates, teachers and school officials. "My daddy told me that I needed to show them that I'm still proud of who I am," McMillen told The Associated Press
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Tiger Coming Back in
2 Weeks? Rumors Swirl
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CBS News & Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 4:33:38 PM
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Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who was reportedly hired by Tiger Woods as a PR consultant, told CBS News that he can neither confirm nor deny a report that the golfing great will return to the PGA tour later this month. Mark Cannizzaro of The New York Post says Fleischer, who was the press secretary to President George W. Bush, is on board to smooth Woods' return to the game at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, which begins March 25th.
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Arab League chief says
Palestinians pull off talks
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Reuters, by Marwa Awad w/Jasmine Saleh
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Posted By: teddyd49- 3/11/2010 4:33:01 PM
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CAIRO,Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told him he would not enter indirect talks with Israel. "The Palestinian president decided he will not enter into those negotiations now ... the Palestinian side is not ready to negotiate under the present circumstances," Moussa told a news conference following an urgent meeting of Arab delegates at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. Arab League delegates said the resumption of the talks hinged on Israel halting settlement expansion in East Jerusalem and Occupied Territories.
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Worshippers Ill after Gulping Snail Slime
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 4:30:20 PM
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Devotees of a Miami man claiming to practice a traditional African religion say they had to ingest the mucus of a Giant African Snail that sickened them. (Snip) The snail grows up to 10 inches long, can reproduce on its own and even can even eat plaster. Stewart says he means no harm, and his religion uses the snails in healing ceremonies. Followers said they got violently ill, losing weight and developing strange lumps in their stomachs.
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Obama Donates Nobel
Prize Money to 10 Charities
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CBS News, by Brian Montopoli
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 4:28:11 PM
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The White House has announced that President Obama has donated the $1.4 million given to him in conjunction with the Nobel Peace Prize to ten charities, including the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and the United Negro College Fund. (Snip) A White House spokesman tells CBS News that Mr. Obama is avoiding tax liability for the prize money by not accepting the award himself. CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports that the president is letting the Nobel Committee distribute the prize money according to his list of charities. He will not get tax deductions for the donations.
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Joe Biden's snub to Netanyahu
as he arrives 90minutes late for dinner
in middle of row with Israel
over West Bank houses
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The Mail (UK), by Staff
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Posted By: teddyd49- 3/11/2010 4:21:31 PM
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night by arriving 90 minutes late to a scheduled dinner. Mr Biden's late arrival was in response to Israel announcing 1,600 new homes will be built in disputed east Jerusalem during his visit to the region. He sharply rebuked the Israeli step - which came just after the Palestinians agreed to a new round of indirect peace talks under U.S. mediation after a 14-month lapse.
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Gov't workers feel no economic pain
Security, wages, benefits
beat private sector's
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Washington Times, by David M. Dickson
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Posted By: teddyd49- 3/11/2010 4:12:06 PM
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The recession and the ongoing jobless recovery devastated much of the private-sector work force last year, sending unemployment soaring, but government workers emerged essentially unscathed, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department. Meanwhile, the compensation for state and local government employees continued to easily outdistance the wages and benefits for workers in private business, a separate Labor Department report showed.
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First lady launches contest
for healthy kids games
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Associated Press, by Darlene Superville
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Posted By: GaGardener- 3/11/2010 4:07:52 PM
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ARLINGTON, Va. — First lady Michelle Obama challenged software and video game designers Wednesday to develop games and tools that get kids, especially 9- to 12-year-olds, excited about eating better and exercising more. The carrot? A chance to share in $40,000 in cash prizes. The Apps for Healthy Kids contest is part of Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign to raise public awareness about the national problem of childhood obesity. One in three U.S. children is overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk of developing diabetes,
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Unemployment tops 20%
in eight California counties
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L.A. Times, by Alana Semuels
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Posted By: teddyd49- 3/11/2010 4:05:39 PM
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For many California areas, unemployment rates moved persistently higher in January, indicating that the national economic recovery hasn't yet translated into jobs for the Golden State. New county-by-county figures released by the state Wednesday showed that in eight counties, more than 1 in 5 people were out of work. Moreover, revised numbers for last year show that fewer people were employed than was previously believed.
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The Endless Campaign
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Time Magazine, by Joe Klein
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 3/11/2010 4:04:20 PM
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There is not much news in Karl Rove's memoir, Courage and Consequence, which is something of a moral triumph for the author. Rove is nothing if not loyal, and these sorts of books tend to create a stir only when they betray the boss. A significant amount of dirt is dished here--an astonishing amount, actually; this is a work of titanic pettiness--but it's all tossed at enemies of George W. Bush.
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White House, Democrats
close in on health bill
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 3:41:02 PM
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Washington - House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama's health care bill and will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats. A break on abortion would remove a major obstacle for Democratic leaders in the final throes of a yearlong effort to change health care in the United States. But it sets up a risky strategy of trying to round up enough Democrats to overcome, not appease, a small but possibly decisive group of Democratic lawmakers in the House.
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Why the U.S. can't inflate
its way out of debt
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CNN/Money, by Jeanne Sahadi
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Posted By: Photoonist- 3/11/2010 3:37:49 PM
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New York - It's dawning on people that getting a handle on burgeoning U.S. debt will be a long and hard process. (Snip) The idea: Pursue policies that boost prices and wages and erode the value of the currency. The United States would owe the same amount of actual dollars to its creditors -- but the debt becomes easier to pay off because the dollar becomes less valuable. That's hardly a good plan, say a bevy of debt experts and economists. ''Many countries have tried this and they've all failed''
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Weak Tea or Strong Tea?
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The American, by Lee Harris
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Posted By: Judy W.- 3/11/2010 3:36:49 PM
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When reading articles that aim at understanding the Tea Party movement, I am reminded of the ancient fable of the elephant and the blind men. Unable to see the whole elephant at a glance, each of the blind men drew his conclusions about the nature of the elephant by laying his hands on one of the elephant’s parts. The one who seizes the tail of the elephant says that the animal is like a rope.
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Michelle Obama named fitness role model
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United Press International, by Staff
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Posted By: GaGardener- 3/11/2010 3:34:02 PM
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NEW YORK--Fitness magazine named Michelle Obama one of 10 role models committed to bringing healthy living, exercise and better nutrition to U.S. communities. The magazine's first annual Champions of Health and Fitness Awards were nominated by health experts for their contributions over the past year.Aso named were: Serena Williams; Donna Karan; Anne Mahlum; James Park and Eric Friedman; Julie Wilkes;
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