Chizuko Ueno: Speaking up for her sex

People | CLOSE-UP Mar 5, 2006

Chizuko Ueno: Speaking up for her sex

by Eric Prideaux

In the United States today, it is no longer radical to suggest that the next president could be a woman. In Nordic countries, no husband would rail at a pregnant wife who expected him to share child-raising duties. And female heads of state are ...

Fashionista with attitude

People | CLOSE-UP Feb 5, 2006

Fashionista with attitude

by Martin Webb

Raised on the mean streets of Brooklyn's Brownsville district, Gene Krell is a self-proclaimed tough guy who cites as one of his heroes a little-known but highly colorful "Dadaist professional boxer" called Arthur Cravan. Odd, then, that he should have found his life's work in ...