Assads No Longer in Vogue
Remember the breathless 3,000-word Vogue feature in March about Syria’s Asma Assad, the “freshest and most magnetic of first ladies”? Well, Israel Matzav blogs:
Now it seems that story has been flushed down the memory hole.
Thanks to the wonders of Google cache, you can still find the original story online by going here. [CAMERA notes: The cached link also no longer appears to work.]
But since April 30, if you go to the original link, this is what you will see:
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