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The Ultimate Power Women's Dinner

Hundreds of the world’s most powerful women—from Queen Rania to Martha Stewart—gathered Wednesday night to spotlight the plight of poor and deprived women. View our gallery.

On Thursday, 300 of the richest and most powerful women gathered at Cipriani in New York to throw the spotlight on the world's poor and deprived women. The likes of Nicole Kidman, Martha Stewart, Geri Halliwell, Diane von Furstenberg, and Shania Twain turned out at the Important Dinner for Women, which was co-hosted by Wendi Murdoch, Queen Rania of Jordan and Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi. The Daily Mail reports that Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama missed the event so they could look bored during their husbands' speeches to the U.N. The dinner highlighted the Millennium Development Goal of reducing death from childbirth by 75 percent by 2015, saving 10 million lives. British First Lady Sarah Brown gave the keynote address on maternal mortality, noting, "When a mother survives, a lot survives with her, and when women come together, they are an unstoppable force for change." View our gallery of the event.

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September 24, 2009 | 7:34am
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"The Daily Mail reports that Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama missed the event so they could look bored during their husbands' speeches to the U.N"
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Give me a break - the MDG is a joke - all sizzle no steak . Has-been politicos turned UN International Civil servant living in govt and UN subsidized apt in Manhattan managing that Fund.
Now they are hosting 300 "look-at-me " in couture bimbos or trophy wives who can't differentiate an African country from an Asian one, apart from a handful of CEOs.

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12:39 pm, Sep 24, 2009

roadhunter

I want to have Nicole Kidman and Mary Louise-Parker over for a sandwich. They can be the bread, and I'll be the meat.

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3:36 pm, Sep 24, 2009

UnknownCaller

I barely recognized Nicole Kidman. Whatever she is doing to her face must stop!

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9:58 am, Sep 25, 2009
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