Ah, where is the glamour? Don't those Israelis IDF forces know, as manly, well-dressed and coiffed as they are, that Hezbollah deserves to follow their own fashion sense? Even CNN's ANDERSON COOPER is wearing those wonderful little IDF shirts while on assigment (come on Andy --- Think of your brother --- That'll make you cry on camera!).
It's well-known, though not widely reported, because it hits the media where they live (the pocketbook), that Saddam Hussein (yep, the one on trial in Baghdad) 
According to our friends at GAWKER, last month, Hachette Filipacchi started a Middle Eastern version of Elle, sold in Jordan, Morocco and Lebanon. Unfortunately, Lebanon has become considerably less fashionable in the past few weeks and the magazine's production has suffered:
These days, as Beirut has redescended into a hellish war zone, six Elle staffers are hiding out in a "safe place," as [Elle Orient] editor in chief Désirée Sadek wrote in an e-mail to American Elle editor in chief Roberta Myers. It could not be confirmed whether Sadek and her staff will complete the next issue.
"We don't really know what tomorrow will bring, but we continue to work because we are
very depressed if we don't," Sadek wrote in response to Myers' query. She added the Lebanese staff would try to "prepare a special edition with a supplement about all this and the courage of women and children who are dying under the attacks."
Let this be an inspiration to us all. Even in the face of death, Fall 2006's preppy jumpers and metallic brocades shall bravely soldier on. And R&T and C&D readers, who wet-dream of their future Porsches and quote magazines which never met a car they didn't like, can keep adding to Saddam's coffers. Maybe it wasn't the people who became small, it was the wars.
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