Writer Suzy Gershman Dies at 64

"My heart is repeatedly every time I go into the closet-size shop, I've never seen so many bags that could not live without", Suzy Gershman has written one of the hidden gems that are in your search for "Born Buy in Hong Kong. "" These grants are not copies, just to see something happen ", as the bags in fashion magazines. "

In another finding, revealed in "Born to Shop New York", wrote: "This is the kind of small boutique on Madison Avenue, you could go without knowing that the site is 'a' the ladies of the Upper East Side who love the look euro-asian-art-Boho-hippie ".

Ms. Gershman was the author of 16 "shopping" Born guidelines, published more than 26 years and compiled over hundreds of kilometers to roam around the world and, often, the meanders of the new street .

You have become the standards that have been reviewed every two years - in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, France and Italy. In total, over four million copies of "Born to Shop" books, first published by Bantam and later this week, have been sold.

Ms. Gershman has died of cancer last Wednesday in San Antonio for 64 years, Sarah Lahey said in the past eight years has helped Ms. Gershman researching and writing books.

Buyers guide attention to local markets, boutiques and specialty shops outside the tracks with goods from the artisans. We recommend hotels at affordable prices and offer shopping tips. Ms. Gershman between the Ten Commandments for international purchases:

¶ "Buy local groceries, gifts not only for low cost, but for the objects of local manufacture and bring home a taste of the destination, mustard, ie, France, Texas BBQ sauce ".

¶ "Do not buy products cheaper abroad, especially if it is something that can not go back."

¶ "Do not buy the mania of the moment, that is, the national flag of a country transformed into a headscarf. I mean, really ...."

"The basic idea of ??the book," Ms. Gershman once said, "is that you must read, as we were eating breakfast and I said to my shopping day."

In fact, only this type of event has inspired the series. "He lived in Beverly Hills, where he worked as editor of the West Coast style of People magazine," Ms Lahey said. "She was having lunch with friends, and decided to write a guide to shopping in Beverly Hills. It was what he did the deed."

Suzy Kalter was born April 13, 1948, in San Antonio. She was "not a guy who had a merit scholarship," said Lahey, "but when he traveled with his family would explore local markets and buy sweets -. He always uses the word" was one of three children Gloria and SS Kalter, known as Sy.

His father was a research scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the World Health Organization.

Ms. Kalter graduated from the University of Texas in 1969 with a degree in journalism, then moved to New York to work in advertising and public relations.

There he met Michael Gershman, who married in 1975. He died in 2000. Ms. Gershman survive him a son, Aaron, his brother, Steven, and a granddaughter.

The Gershmans moved to Los Angeles, where, while working for the people, Ms. Kalter (while continuing to be known) has become a regular guest on television programs. In 1986, when "Born to Shop" series began, he changed his name to Gershman.

For Ms. Gershman, much had something to share. In France, purchased by CIL Demasq case, around $ 5 per bottle. "It's a French eye makeup remover - CILS is French for eyelashes - called the product more beautiful than ever invented," said Ms. Lahey. "You are the uses and gave all his friends."

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Columnist Alexander Cockburn dies at 71

Alexander Cockburn, radical journalist who had written columns and long-standing and bitter conservative Wall Street Journal and the left output of the nation, died Friday in Germany. He was 71 years.

The writer was influential in fighting cancer, according to its editor, Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

Unlike other prominent writer, Christopher Hitchens, with whom he had often been compared, Cockburn does not share the history of the disease. "It was a rare move in a calm race characterized by a thirst for public debate.

For 28 years, Cockburn has written a column once the Devil in the nation. Her last column appears publication July 30.

"Alexander was delighted to be a disturbing element, and his provocative, controversial style, elegant, usually involved, and their reporting and analysis in the sub-windows open unreported news," Vanden Heuvel, director and editor of the Nation, said in an email to The Times.

"I often felt I was not doing my job well, if we have a dozen cancellations of subscriptions as a result of some columns Cockburn."

Cockburn was born June 6, 1941, in Scotland, the son of writer Claud Cockburn.

It grew up in Ireland and graduated from Oxford University in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language.

He began his journalism career in England before moving to the United States in 1973.

Moved to New York where he began writing a column for the Village Voice review of revolutionary media.

"His legacy was his commitment to truth, his disgust with the pretense of objectivity, his belief that every piece of writing has had an ideological inclination, and had to admit that," Amy Wilentz , a contributing editor nation, the Times said in an email.

Cockburn, who had been critical ofIsrael'spolicies was fired from the Village Voice in 1984, after it emerged that he had accepted $ 10,000 from a group described as pro-Arab. Cockburn said the money was for a book deal.

Like Hitchens, Cockburn began his career as a public intellectual as a radical leftist, and then to drift. Both found that the search for independent thought has given rise to opinions that are contrary to those held by their allies.

Where Cockburn, one of the main problems was left burning his denial of global warming, which brought him a measure of public attention in 2007.

In recent years, Cockburn had withdrawn from its privileged position at the public forum. "He had the intellectual firepower to do whatever I wanted," said writer Marc Cooper, a former colleague who had a fight with Cockburn.

"He became lost in a very influential writer in favor of becoming a controversial release of fang."

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