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...Macdonald had a long conversation with Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, and Yves Carcelle, the man in charge of its fashion brands. "We decided it was time to explore new territory," said Carcelle. That meant Macdonald could break away from Givenchy traditions and do his own thing. Before the backdrop of a city skyline, Macdonald showed off couture versions of dresses from his popular ready-to-wear line. Shiny, strappy and asymmetrical, the frocks were a drastic switch from the Givenchy heritage he'd been mining - with little success - in previous seasons. With the departure of Saint Laurent, Valentino became...
...Duterte, who graduated as a lawyer in 1972?the year Marcos proclaimed martial law?rose to prominence against this backdrop of vicious mayhem. As a city prosecutor he made his reputation by targeting military and rebel abuses with equal fervor. The son of a former provincial governor, Duterte says his father taught him that elected officials must serve the greater good no matter what it takes, like a father protecting and disciplining his family. And Duterte was fearless: even as a teenager, he refused to back down from fights?or whippings from his mother?despite being a self-confessed skinny...
...town. Higher-minded pursuits include the Sakhalin regional museum (housed in the Imperial Japanese Government Offices dating from when the Japanese controlled southern Sakhalin from 1905-45), the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chekhov Theater, street markets selling everything from wild berries to furs, and Gagarin Park, complete with mountain backdrop, a small train and a pristine lake...
...thing is, wars are rarely fought over dumps. Nepal's countryside, now being made a hell by vicious, marauding Maoists, is simultaneously a picture of bucolic paradise, rivaled perhaps only by Afghanistan's northern mountains in springtime. Cambodia's civil war raged against a backdrop of some of the world's most stunning architecture?Angkor Wat and its surrounding Khmer temples?while the battlefields where 65,000 people have died in two decades in northern Sri Lanka are lush jungles of palms and ponds alive with kingfishers, green parrots and black and yellow longtails. Kashmir in May?as the snow...
...cutting off their hands if they refused to murder their parents and join his anti-government militia. Imagine that the Swiss government had fallen and a warlord from Geneva was stopping United Nations food rations from reaching a starving people. And imagine that such tumult was unfolding against a backdrop of an incurable epidemic—one that had already infected one quarter of the entire European population...