Friday, 11 September 2009

POV: The Mind Boggles

© Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times

While our country is involved in two wars and human lives are lost every day; while President Obama is tackling the enormous economic difficulties inherited from the previous administration, as well as trying to reshape our broken health care system; while we are remembering the dreadful events of September 11, 2001, and while unemployment is at its highest ever, there is still New York Fashion Week to remind us of the breathtaking superficiality of certain segments of society.

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