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Julia Restoin-Roitfeld is adding a new item to her modeling resume. The daughter of French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, was chosen as the fall face of Accessorize, the British fashion accessories chain.

The “Godfather” films remain the 20th-century answer to Shakespeare’s plays of royal succession, with the twist that here Prince Hal grows up, not into Henry V, but Richard III. Watching the first film, you are struck again by how little screen time Marlon Brando actually occupies. Most of his work is done in the 20-minute opening sequence, as the Godfather sits in his study, receiving supplicants on the day of his daughter’s wedding. This is a piece of superbly efficient expository writing, setting out an exotic milieu, describing its rules and moral configuration, and establishing the larger-than-life figure who presides...

<p>Well, the good news first. After installing three very sweet machines and new networking equipment, FR is geared up for the onslaught of traffic we anticipate during this election cycle. All that is left is some tuning and bringing online another database server.</p>

Ever wonder where former CNN'r Aneesh Raman went? The Middle East correspondent left CNN in June to "try something different." Well, now we've found him. Raman is now with the Obama campaign, as witnessed by this Obama campaign email blast, obtained by FishbowlDC

Read Acts 20:28-31 I Peter 5:8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. The devil is a roaring lion, deceivers are savage wolves. Lions and wolves – both are carnivores. They both hunt for live prey to eat. To hunt live prey requires the ability to sneak close to it, undetected. No self-respecting deer or sheep (or gazelle, or cow, or zebra for that matter) would go about happily munching the prairie grass if he knew a hungry predator was approaching. Every time I watch...

This is a stand in until the FR threads come back up or Lawrence reposts.

Yes, I am fully aware of the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll that has Senator Obama up by nine points over the next President of the United States, John McCain. It's been referenced at least three times today here at the great Free Republic website. *Yawn* (Pardon me). While I’m certain to come across as profoundly hypocritical here, I assure you, I am not. In recent articles I have written, I have quoted polls to help backup important points I have wanted to make. When delving into these polls, I have always done my very best to make sure the...

An organic wine from Chile has oenophiles in San Francisco turning up their noses. But there’s nothing wrong with the wine. It’s the name that bothers them: Palin Syrah. The wine from a boutique vineyard in Chile was once a strong seller, but now it’s an outcast in the City by the Bay because its name comes way too close to a certain governor from the state of Alaska, says Celine Guillou, co-owner of the Yield Wine Bar. Palin Syrah — pronounced Pay-LEEN — takes its name from a ball used in a Chilean-style hockey game, and it has been...

Hyperactive children should no longer be given Ritalin, new health guidelines say. Ritalin should no longer be given to hyperactive children. The drug should not be prescribed to children under five and used for older children only when they have severe ADHD or as a last resort, the guidance says.Instead, parents should be taught psychological techniques for changing the behaviour of unruly youngsters diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.The guidelines were issued by the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health.The directive says parent training and education programmes should be offered...

Bernanke declares markets must be stabilized, Bush reported eyeing speech to nation WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared Wednesday that economic growth depends on stabilizing stressed financial institutions as the White House said President Bush was weighing a speech to the nation on turmoil in the markets.

Full-time recreational-vehicle residents will be allowed to vote in the November presidential election, thanks to an agreement reached between the Tennessee chapter of the ACLU and Bradley County Election Commission. Ron and Leone Teel and Tom Layton, who live full-time in their recreational vehicles, were among over 250 full-time RVers who were purged from Tennessee voting rolls in 2006 based on a change in Tennessee law which prohibited people from using a commercial address to register to vote. “We are delighted that this novel issue was resolved in time for our clients to vote in this historic election,” Tricia Herzfeld,...

On September 25, there will be a press conference and a rally outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City at 5:30 p.m. to protest the five Christian organizations that are welcoming Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Those organizations are the World Council of Churches, Religions for Peace, the Americans Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee and the Quaker United Nations Office; they are hosting a Ramadan fast-breaking dinner (Iftar). Over 50 organizations have now joined the protest, which is being sponsored by Women International; see www.925rally.org for more information. Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why his organization is...

Washington, DC -- Barack Obama is running a misleading radio ad on the issue of stem cell research -- falsely accusing presidential candidate John McCain of voting against it. The ad, which features a mother of a child with juvenile diabetes, also ignores how adult stem cell research provides the most hope for patients.

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Bill McInturff, John McCain's lead pollster, called today's ABC News/Washington Post national poll (showing Barack Obama +9) an "unusual outlier" and chalked it up to a Democratic party identification margin that was higher than normal. "I don't think these results are at all indicative of what's happening in the campaign," McInturff told reporters on a morning conference call. "Where I think this race is: It's a margin of error race nationally and it's a margin of error race in most of the most competitive states." Although he praised the ABC News and Washington Post polling teams, McInturff said this poll...

This is what we need. He needs to get his teleprompter out and tell us what happened and why and who did what and why, and what happens if we do and don't!

I am writing on behalf of a group of McCain/Palin volunteers who met yesterday in Ramsey, NJ, in order to try to get out out the vote and garner support for the 2008 Campaign. . . the most important Presidential Campaign in recent memory. We were wondering if any thought has been given to holding a rally at Liberty State Park, in Jersey City, NJ sometime in October? In light of the enormous crowds Sarah Palin has been generating (most recently yesterday in Florida), we thought a perfect venue for a rally would be right on the Hudson at Liberty,...

Austrian photographer Helge Kirchberger and famous chef Roland Trettl teamed up to launch a Fashion Food project, and the results were amazing. Among the stylish items they cooked up were evening gowns from wild rice, hats from chicken eggs and marzipan, bikinis from seaweed, and many other types of clothing from organic food.