Coco Chanel: The Orphan Who Transformed Fashion

by Susan Stamberg
Morning Edition
National Public Radio
September 18, 2009

French actress Audrey Tautou plays Chanel in the movie Coco Before Chanel. The designer stood out from the wealthy women around her by donning dark, comfortably tailored men's suits.

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They Can Do It: The Third World's Untapped Power

By Carolyn See
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, September 11, 2009

Book Review: HALF THE SKY
Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

...These Pulitzer Prize-winning authors see the treatment of women in developing countries as the great story of this century, a moral issue, sure, but also as an economic one. What if by oppressing half their population, countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East have been shooting themselves in their collective foot?...