Word: appealling
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...younger generation of Japanese consumers. Everything, right down to the way the handbags and small leather goods were displayed in the window of his new shop, was about luring these coveted new luxury aficionados into Armani's universe. All around the world, designers and luxury executives are jockeying to appeal to the millennial generation. (Gen Y, Nexters, Boomlets: call them what you want?they're the grownup babies of baby boomers.) From Burberry's advertising campaign featuring London It girls like Agyness Deyn to Karl Lagerfeld's recent Chanel Couture show starring the miniskirt and flats?a look only...
...decision Monday. Sebire's lawyers argue that current laws pertaining to terminal patients can be interpreted to allow active euthanasia. The political consequences of that ruling will be as grave as Sebire's vital stake in it. Members of France's center-right government have rejected Sebire's appeal in virtual unison, arguing that existing legislation, laid down in 2005, allows families and doctors of terminal patients to withhold life-sustaining treatment, but in no way permits active measures to provoke death. Sebire and her backers retort that preventing her from getting medical assistance to end her life swiftly...
...Given both the heart-breaking nature of Sebire's condition and appeal, and the enormous ethical issues and medical precedents involved, Monday's decision is bound to rekindle the controversy and debate that has raged across France over the case in recent weeks. Earlier this month Sebire wrote a personal appeal to President Nicolas Sarkozy that he support her request for euthanasia. Her plea was motivated by a campaign speech Sarkozy made last year ahead of his election, in which he admitted "when I hear debates on euthanasia, I tell myself that while I respect the principles, the convictions...
...Apparently, however, there are also limits to how much personal conviction a president can translate into public policy. On Wednesday, Sarkozy responded to Sebire's appeal by offering to convene a panel of specialists to see if all possible means have been exhausted in treating her rare disease, known as esthesioneuroblastoma. On Thursday, Sebire declined that offer, explaining the advancing tumors have left her blind and otherwise disabled, and that movement beyond her home involved considerable effort and assistance...
...possible for her to be hospitalized and put into an artificial coma without being fed until she dies. That passive form of euthanasia, Sebire objected, was "neither dignified, humane, or respectful of me or my children." Should she lose, Sebire's lawyer says she'll either appeal, if she feels the strength to fight on, or give up her efforts to die in France on her own terms, and check into a Swiss facility specializing in assisted suicide. "It's hard for my children to imagine me going away there," Sebire explains, "but I can't take this anymore...