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...DIED. BERNARD LACOSTE, 74, who presided over the Lacoste apparel company for 40 years and made its crocodile logo a much imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswearmaker--founded by his tennis-champ father René Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in reaction to the stifling long-sleeved Oxfords worn by players in the 1920s--the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items in the 1960s to 50 million last year...
...DIED. BERNARD LACOSTE, 74, who presided for 40 years over the Lacoste apparel company and made its crocodile logo a much-imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswear maker?founded by his tennis-champ father Ren? Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in the 1920s?the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items per year in the mid-1960s to 50 million last year...
...BERNARD-HENRI LEVY No. Because it was the wrong target: Iran and Pakistan are infinitely more threatening. Because it was the wrong approach: the neoconservatives, who put no stock in government policy at home and thus can't do so abroad, produced no plans for democratic nation building. And, above all, because this war, which aimed to reduce the number and strength of terrorists, has instead increased them. What was needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," ŕ la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short...
...BERNARD KOUCHNER No, because of the way Americans went about it. I think it was up to the international community to pull together and get rid of Saddam for the Iraqi people. I have long argued for the "right to intervene." But you have to succeed. To do that, you need the international community standing with you. Saddam had been a major assassin in his country for 35 years. What difference would a few weeks have made? They should have done as we did in Kosovo, setting up a contact group and relying on international cooperation and peacekeepers...
...Staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...