PARIS (Reuters) – France's housing minister has caused a sensation by showing up in jeans while her colleagues donned dresses and suits for the new left-wing government's inaugural cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris. Cecile Duflot, 37-year-old head of the Greens ecology party, struck a lone figure in denims on Thursday when several of the 34 ministers spared no effort to …
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SEVERAL questions were raised when the lower half of a body was found floating in Bedok Reservoir on Monday. Could it have been severed in a gruesome murder? How long has it been in the water?
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Here we go again From: SPLENDOR GUEST SERVICES Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 9:07 PM Subject: Not allowed to dining room with Jeans on Good evening, Please be advised that guest from the cabin ____________, informed that she was not allowed to enter dining room on elegant night as she had jeans with holes.
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LAS VEGAS – WOMEN who hate skinny jeans can rejoice this spring when the extra-tight denim that has dominated the market for more than two years makes way for wide-leg cuts. Bell-bottoms and boot-cut styles will appear in US stores this spring. Many apparel watchers predict the eventual demise of the skinny that has spurred both adoration and revulsion.
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Boomers boost demand for hip denim with a bit more give.
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JERUSALEM – ISRAELI diplomats have started wearing jeans and sandals to work and caused a series of diplomatic faux pas in a protest over salary conditions, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday. The increasingly public dispute has compounded Israel’s diplomatic woes at a time when it is struggling to contain the backlash from a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid fleet last month that frayed …
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THERE is something gratifyingly solid about Sam Mendes. You could say it was the physical bulk of the man, packed firmly in jeans and a casual grey shirt. Or perhaps it is the ‘beard effect’, a psychological trick involving rubbing one’s generous facial topiary with gentle authority as gestural between questions.
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Oscar ‘is a curse & a blessing’
Every day is a holiday for something. Today is a good day to clean out all of those old, out-of-date jeans.
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Day What? (Omaha World-Herald)
THE police are looking for a 25-year-old Indonesian maid after she allegedly threatened her employer’s daughter with a knife, and hit her on the head before tying her up with a telephone cable. The maid then escaped, probably through the kitchen window of the third-storey flat, where eyewitnesses saw her sitting on the ledge. The short-haired woman was wearing a red shirt and blue jeans.
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Maid hit teen, wanted (Straits Times)
Atlanta police said thieves rammed a vehicle through the entrance to a downtown Atlanta clothing store early Sunday and made off with nearly $50,000 worth of designer jeans.
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Burglars Smash Downtown Store, Steal Designer Jeans (WXIA-TV Atlanta)