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Women take it all off to push for peace Photo protest draws 43 to pose together in the buff near Lake Lavon 03/18/2003 By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News As the nation moved closer to war with Iraq, nearly four dozen Dallas-area women removed their clothes to protest it. On Saturday, as a helicopter carrying a female pilot and photographer buzzed overhead, 43 naked women lined up end to end to form the word "peace." The event, on private property along Lake Lavon about 20 miles north of Dallas, mirrored other similar "Baring Witness" protests. "Being...

For Rumsfeld, a land of disenchantment War protests at defense secretary's hideaways near Taos no vacation 03/11/2003 By ANDY LENDERMAN / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News TAOS, N.M. - Children are blowing whistles on Donald Rumsfeld's privacy outside his digs in northern New Mexico, an area where for decades celebrities have sought seclusion. Artists, writers and, increasingly, the rich have flocked to this high country resort town to get away: D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Hopper and Julia Roberts, to name a few. The defense secretary finds he must work harder for privacy since war protests were staged at...