 | Dressing the
´First Dresser´
THE designers Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs,
known professionally as Cushnie et Ochs, have been
critical darlings ever since starting their business in
2009, just a few years out of college. They have been
prominently featured in WWD and Vogue...
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| | Helping pregnant women keep their jobs |
 FEW people
realise that getting
pregnant
can mean losing
your job.
Imagine a
woman who, seven months
into her pregnancy, is fired
from her position as a cashier
because she needed a few
extra bathroom breaks. Or
imagine another pregnant
employee who was fired from
her retail job after giving her
supervisors a doctor´s note
requesting she be allowed to
refrain from heavy lifting and
climbing ladders during the
month and a half before her
maternity leave: That´s what
happened to Patricia Leahy.
In 2008 a federal judge in
Brooklyn ruled that her firing
was fair because her employers
were not obligated to
accommodate her needs.
We see this ... | | | Berlin film fest crowns
Italian prison docu-drama |  THE 62nd Berlin film
festival wrapped up
on Sunday after
awarding its Golden
Bear top prize to
Italy´s veteran directors Paolo
and Vittorio Taviani for their
gripping prison docu-drama
Caesar Must Die.
The picture shows real-life
murderers and mafiosi from a
high-security jail in Rome staging
Shakespeare´s tragedy
Julius Caesar, with their own
personal dramas giving resonance
to the play´s themes of
betrayal and vengeance.
"We hope that when the film
is released to the general public
that cinemagoers will say to
themselves or even those
around them ... that even a prisoner
with a dreadful sentence,
even a life sentence, is and
remains a human ... | | | Signs of recovery, walked
few steps: Big ´B´ on blog |
 AMITABH
Bachchan has
reported signs
of improvement
in his blood test
reports, thus avoiding a
second surgery. He also
tried to walk a few steps,
but didn´t reveal when he
will be discharged from
hospital.
"The morning of today
arose with deep thought
and contemplation on the
morning before. In the
midst of intense discussions
between the medical
team and the family,
there seemed to be an
opinion arriving that perhaps
another surgery was
avoidable and that some of
the blood reports which had
reached alarming levels were
beginning to show signs of
improvement," Big B posted on
his blog recently.
"Oblivious to all these, there was a
desire to walk and move ... | |
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