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I stood with fellow students in the early 1980s in calling on corporations and governments to cripple South Africa’s Apartheid regime with boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS). We were trying to force democratic reforms that would grant civil rights to the country’s historically oppressed blacks. I could not have been prouder. But I knew that… Read more.
It’s not getting nearly as much media coverage as Donald Trump accusing President Obama of faking his American citizenship, but Natalie Portman’s body double accusing her of faking the dance moves that won her an Oscar is far more newsworthy; not least because it actually rings true. I’m not speaking because I feel I should be heralded.… Read more.
Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent always looked too dazed and confused to walk down a runway, let alone design haute-couture clothing for models to do so. The only other who struck me as weird in this way was Christian Dior’s creative director, John Galliano, who always seemed more interested in impersonating surrealist painter Salvador Dalí than… Read more.
