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“Glee’s” Darren Criss and Lea Michele performed at The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation’s event in Beverly Hills.

The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation at UCLA celebrated their 17th Annual Taste for a Cure benefit at the Beverly Wilshire, with a star-studded guest list and intimate dinner April 20. NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke was honored with the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award, which recognizes individuals for their humanitarian and philanthropic efforts.

The judge wrote that Apple had a “strong incentive” to encourage publishers to agree together on the rules for e-book sales so that its iBookstore did not face stiff competition.

The federal government has reached a settlement with three of the publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Shuster. But it is proceeding with its lawsuit against Apple and Holtzbrinck Publishers, doing business as Macmillan, and The Penguin Publishing Co. Ltd., doing business as Penguin Group.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge cited the confident voice of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs on Tuesday as she refused to toss out lawsuits alleging the company and various publishers conspired to drive up the price of electronic books.

In a lawsuit this year, the U.S. government joined 15 states in suing Apple and publishers, saying they conspired in the fall of 2009 to force e-book prices several dollars above the $9.99 price charged by Amazon.com on its popular Kindle device. According to the lawsuit, the publishers were concerned that Amazon’s e-book price was too far below the price of hardcover books and Apple was concerned because it was preparing to launch the iPad. By 2010, Amazon was responsible for 90 percent of e-book sales in the United States, the judge noted.

The judge rejected the argument that Apple and the publishers were merely improving the efficiencies of distribution, saying: “It has everything to do with coordinating a horizontal agreement among publishers to raise prices, and eliminating horizontal price competition among Apple’s competitors at the retail level.”

The judge noted that Jobs told the publishers that “the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway.”

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote noted in her written ruling that Jobs had made statements that agreements between the publishers and Apple Inc., based in Cupertino, Calif., would cause consumers to “pay a little more” and that prices would “be the same” at Apple and Amazon.com.

Amazon’s $9.99 price for best-sellers was such a deep discount from list prices of $20 and more that it was widely believed Amazon was selling the e-books at a loss to attract more customers and force competitors to lower their prices.

Messages left Tuesday with lawyers for Holtzbrinck and Penguin were not immediately returned.

“With the fortuitous entry of Apple into the market for e-books, and the decision by Apple to join the price-fixing conspiracy, that horizontal conspiracy became a potent weapon for engineering a fundamental shift in an entire industry,” the judge said.

Our Fall Accessory Report, of course. For our biannual guide, senior market editor Marina Larroude picked the trends of the season, from the envelope clutch to the new loafer to anything and everything with a sprinkling of feathers and fur. Her complete picks are live here. And if that’s not enough bags, shoes, and jewelry for the accessory obsessives out there, you can glut yourself on the Fall ‘11 Accessories Index, our comprehensive guide to almost 5,000 (!) of the seasons’ best. Happy browsing.

Above: Loafer by Pollini; pump by Gianvito Rossi; clutch by Salvatore Ferragamo.

Despite being injured in 1967, he stayed in the country until 1970.

"I think of him as nothing less than a genius."

Germany-born Faas won four major photo prizes, including two Pulitzers, during his career, and served as AP's Saigon photo chief at the height of the war.

"I tried to be in the newspapers every day, to beat the opposition with better photos. I didn't try to do anything grandiose. The photos were used and published and asked for, becuase Vietnam was on the front pages year after year after.

He died after suffering years of health problems, including paralysis from the waist down.

"He will be sorely missed by scores of colleagues, especially that reduced group with whom he covered conflict, particularly the Vietnam generation."

"I lived from day to day, from event to event. It was a perfect story for an agency photographer."

Speaking to the BBC in 2007, Faas described his job in simple terms.

"He was an exceptional talent both behind the camera and editing the work of others and even in the grimmest circumstances he always made sure to live life to the fullest," Lyon said.

He worked in what was then Zaire, and in Algeria, before relocating to Vietnam, where he won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1965.

"I don't think anyone stayed longer, took more risks or showed greater devotion to his work and his colleagues," said New York Times journalist David Halberstam, who once lived with Haas.

Accepting the award, he said he aimed to "record the suffering, the emotions and the sacrifices of both Americans and Vietnamese in… this little bloodstained country so far away," AP said.

When not in the midst of the conflict, Faas worked at AP's Saigon base, viewing and selecting images from his photographers to transmit on the wire to the rest of the world.

Under his direction, AP photographers captured images that quickly became synonymous with the long war: among the most notable were Eddie Adams' image of the execution of a Viet Cong suspect and Nick Ut's picture of a naked Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack.

Celebrated combat photographer Horst Faas, who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, has died aged 79, his daughter says.

He had a front row view of much of that suffering.

‘Genius’

Faas was injured in 1967 and later used a wheelchair for many years.

"Horst Faas was a giant in the world of photojournalism whose extraordinary commitment to telling difficult stories was unique and remarkable," said Santiago Lyon, AP's global head of photography.

He began his career covering conflicts in 1960, four years after joining the Associated Press (AP).

In Saigon he trained and mentored young Vietnamese photographers who captured many of the war's defining images.

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See Megan Fox’s sexy Transformers style!.

Here, we’re featuring the $48 Armani Exchange Chevron sequined tank. It goes great with shorts or a pencil skirt. Wear it with white jeans, add a strong shoulder blazer and high heels and you are set!

Some of the most lovely dresses on the red carpet are designed by Giorgio Armani (Megan Fox in Armani Prive Couture line at the Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen premiere in Moscow, Angelina Jolie at the 2009 BAFTA Awards, Heidi Klum at 2008 and even the Beckhams in their skivvies!) and even though this line has been around for a long time, it’s always good to remember when you want a slice of that couture-looking pie for less, there’s always A/X Armani Exchange.

First there were the working-class Mexican lonchero trucks, quietly slinging their humble tacos. Then, a few years later, their up-market successors hit the scene, scrambling the cultural references (cucumber kimchi slaw, bao buns instead of tortillas) and pumping up the price. The most successful of them — including the Flying Pig and Komodo — eventually went on to open brick-and-mortar locations themselves.

L.A.’s food fad permanently parks itself at popular club Playhouse.

The Material Girl’s new collection, Material Girl, officially went on sale at Macy’s today, where lines formed around the block for first grab at Madge’s affordable outfits. And since any and everything Madonna tends to bring out the true believers, so no surprise that there were a fair number of impersonators (besides those the store hired to promote the line!) shopping the racks. A few of our favorites, above and below.

Eddie Borgo may be showing his Fall 2012 jewelry collection in Paris this week, but the downtown designer is in a perpetual New York state of mind. As are his baubles, which, this season, were inspired by Gotham’s underground metropolis. “There’s this subterranean landscape beneath major cities like New York, from subways to waterways to sewage tunnels. It’s almost the real skeleton of every major metropolis,” Borgo tells Style.com. After studying these intricate systems, the designer turned out a sophisticated range of gold and gunmetal accessories that balance literal translations of his influences with strong, fluid lines and sharp geometry. NYC’s industrial underground appears on a cuff finished with a textured gunmetal plate that resembles a manhole, bracelets garnished with lava rock (which the designer intended to mimic asphalt), screw and mallet earrings, and a necklace crafted to look like a spouting pair of drainpipes.

Borgo notes that this is his most technically complicated collection to date, which is apparent in the assembly of both his Mainline bangle, a sewage pipe-inspired piece that’s fused together with hand-cut pavé crystal rings, and his Expansion Joint cuff (pictured), a mammoth piece of hardware that, bound with rows of raw nuts and bolts, looks as though it was pulled right out of New York’s netherworld.

“Grates, sewage pipes, joint connectors, and coils may be familiar to our eyes but there’s a way to make these sculptural things that are such a part of our daily lives beautiful,” says Borgo, who revealed that he plans to take a tour of New York’s subterrestrial maze when he returns next week. Of course, a bit of bling always helps, too. Nevertheless Borgo succeeds in making the mundane, and even the ugly, into covetable pieces of hardware.
—Katharine K. Zarrella

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