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...three of his troops are shot, so instead of focussing on warding off the snipers that are firing at the embassy, he has his men open fire into the crowd below. Women, children and elderly people die along with the more dispensable young men. It's a gruesome blood bath. America does not look good. The national security advisor is not amused. Childers is charged with murder...
...consumer's line of vision is paramount, and big houses are using various strategies to stay there. In the old days, the main vehicle was an extravagant launch of a single new scent. But increasingly the weapons of choice are limited-edition perfumes, male versions of female scents and bath-and-body line extensions. "You need to keep fresh, but you cannot constantly do megalaunches," says Karyn Khoury, senior vice president of fragrance development worldwide at Estee Lauder, which produces the Estee Lauder, Clinique and Bobbi Brown brands and holds global fragrance-licensing rights for designers Tommy Hilfiger and Donna...
Despite the increased competition, the heady saturation has its pluses. Fragrance houses have found that pitching to a more aware marketplace means they can push such concepts as "fragrance layering," which means marketing scented body lotions, perfumed hair gels and other bath-line products as well as perfumes. At LVMH, such products now account for about 15% of all fragrance-line sales. But a more discriminating customer may also demand more unusual products. "We're attracting people who are fed up with buying just because they've been told to buy," says Anne Schneider, managing director in Britain of French...
Truman traveled in the ponderous and luxurious private car named Ferdinand Magellan, originally made for President Franklin Roosevelt. It was paneled in oak with four staterooms, bath and shower, and 6,000 lbs. of ice for air conditioning. The car was sheathed in steel-armor plating and 3-in. bulletproof glass. When they were out in the open, Truman liked the train to hit 80 m.p.h., and he would watch "our country" slide by while telling stories and sipping a little good bourbon--ready at each stop to "give 'em hell" and introduce "the boss," Bess Truman. The most famous...
...after she quit her job, she called me up exclaiming, "Now I know why your house looks so nice!" She had lasted only two hours as a shut-in freelancer before making haste to Bed Bath & Beyond...