With the full getup, six speakers and a Dolby amplifier, the results are impressive indeed.

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Avaaz now has ten million members and GetUp is the largest political group back home.

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She used the opportunity to plug her Gucci getup and an upcoming cookbook, tentatively titled Let's Dine. (The book will feature a mishmash of ethnic genres, from Spanish to soul food--no milkshakes).

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And, having unexpectedly encountered the woman in her getup, I found myself wondering what, six and seven decades ago, they would have made of it: what the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy, would have thought about this scene.

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