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Ella Emhoff, the 21 yearold stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, has inked a contract with one of the world's most prestigious modelling agencies, IMG Models.....

First Lady of glamour: Fashion industry pays tribute to Michelle Obama with top style award By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 16th June 2009 It's official: Michelle Obama really is the First Lady of fashion - and now she has the award to prove it. [Pics in URL] The 45-year-old received the honour gong last night over top industry favourites at The Council of Fashion Designers of America's annual awards. Noting her 'meteoric rise as a fashion icon,' CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg said Obama had 'a unique look that balances the duality of her lives' in her roles as adviser to...

The US first lady is carving out a role as an unofficial culture secretary just months after her husband took office AMERICA’S first lady, Michelle Obama, has added a new string to her bow as “minister of culture” in her husband’s administration. The heads of New York’s most prestigious cultural institutions are in no doubt that she intends to play an active policy-making role in the arts world after they were summoned to meet her last week. “She was speaking in a way the minister of culture would speak, even though such a position doesn’t exist in America,” said Peter...

After an aggressive campaign, Kim Coco Iwamoto earned a seat on Hawaii's statewide Board of Education and, according to national advocacy groups, a place in history as the country's highest-elected transgender official. Iwamoto, a 38-year-old lawyer, did not tout her gender status in the campaign but has openly advocated for transgender youth and related issues at the state capitol. She placed third in Tuesday's election among six candidates for three seats on the board. She was not immediately available for comment. However, in a statement early Wednesday she said she was looking forward to "working in collaboration with the other...

WASHINGTON, May 31 — After vowing to steer a greater share of antiterrorism money to the highest-risk communities, Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced 2006 grants that slashed money for New York and Washington 40 percent, while other cities including Omaha and Louisville, Ky., got a surge of new dollars.Homeland security officials said the grants were a result of a more sophisticated evaluation process

Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans...

After reading all of the crap that people have been saying regarding Adult Private Social Clubs, I felt that I had to post an article and give my opinion. I am sick and tired of all the religous groups that are saying that there are drugs, prostitution, minors, non-consenting people, and just immoral people at these clubs! First of all, who do these people think they are to decide what is morally right or wrong for me? I believe that I have a good set of morals. I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen, I work full time and...

PATTAYA, Thailand -- American Mimi Marks won 8,000 dollars, a crown and several other gifts by beating out contestants from around the world to win the Miss International Queen beauty contest for transvestites and transgenders here over the weekend. Blonde Marks pipped Korea's Yu Ri and Thailand's Tiptanlree Rujiranon to win the title in the beauty quest being held for the second time. Contestants from across the world took part in the contest, which selected the most beautiful woman who had been born a man. Miss International Queen organizers said the contest aims to raise awareness of issues facing transvestites...

A man in Jharkhand is seeking divorce from his wife on the grounds that she is not a woman even though medical reports say her sexual problem can be corrected through surgery. Prosenjeet Sarkar, a resident of Jamshedpur, has filed a petition in a family court seeking divorce. Reports appearing in the local media say the court, while admitting the petition, has constituted a medical team to determine the facts of the case. Initially, Sarkar was apparently told that his wife was facing minor sexual problems that could be corrected through surgery. Sarkar is said to have raised the issue...

A Cincinnati man is in trouble — for exposing his breasts. "He's a guy. He's real tall, and he's got a full set of breasts," prosecutor Kevin Donovan told a courtroom Tuesday, according to the Cincinnati Post. Jerome Mason, 23, six feet tall and 200 pounds, was charged with indecent exposure after going topless on a city street early in the morning of April 22. "This complaint is based on Arrested exposed his breasts in public," the police report states. It's not clear whether Mason's "full set" came about naturally or artificially.

A Russian youth wearing a drag outfit which gave him improbably large breasts has been caught trying to sit an entrance exam for a female friend. Moscow University security guards first thought the applicant had an oversized bust because "she" was trying to take crib sheets into the exam. A search unmasked the false bosom, the university told the BBC News website. The man was barred from the exam and the woman he attempted to cover for was struck off the entrants' list. She had been seeking a place in the university's prestigious psychology faculty. Heavy make-up Yasen Zasursky, a...

Enough is enough. ABC/ESPN has forced football fans to listen to the talent less Suzy Kolber for long enough.. I have literally had to mute my TV as I’m watching the Seattle/St Louis playoff game - because I can’t stand to listen to this pretentious sounding women try her best to sound like the quintessential male sportscaster. I’m sure the sponsors don’t appreciate it when they pay millions of dollars to produce and air their commercials and people have their TV‘s muted because the network has to annoy the hell out of their viewers (I guess to make a quota)....

A cross-dressing crook who appeared to resemble pop diva Whitney Houston robbed a Wachovia Bank in Atlanta Friday. Surveillance cameras captured several images of the bandit, who wore a tan trench coat, black boots, and sunglasses. The robber, who witnesses said was a man, entered the bank at 3019 Buford Highway about 11 a.m. through the lobby and approached the teller. He then produced a note that demanded money and specified that he had a weapon and would become violent if his demands were not met. The teller gave the robber a bag of money and he immediately left the...

Can somebody help me find that pic of Teresa Heinz knocking back a few beers that was posted on Drudge a couple days ago?