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Saturday, October 29, 2005

Irony is lost on the Allegheny County Girls as Grantmakers program.

The youth philanthropy program makes grants based on themes such as female involvement in science and technology, female participation in politics, and bullying, cliques and stereotypes among girls. Twenty-three teenagers in the program are scheduled to conduct a boycott rally at Chatham College on Sunday afternoon to protest very provocative T-shirts by Abercrombie & Fitch.

They are upset about women's T-shirts with supposedly degrading messages. Among them: 'Who needs brains when you have these"