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...aesthetic suited Charlotte Gainsbourg's parents, icons Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, in the late '70s when Bonpoint was still a mom-and-pop operation off the Boulevard St. Germain, with founder Cohen in the studio and her husband Bernard keeping the books. Over the years, the business grew, and the couple opened stores in various capitals. In 2003, 33 years after opening their first boutique, the Cohens sold 70% of the company to Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, an investment group specializing in growing small and medium-size companies for resale. At a recent press conference, Bonpoint executives noted...
...DIED. Bernard Rimland, 78, psychologist who pioneered modern autism research and advocacy and founded the Autism Society of America; in El Cajon, Calif. In 1958, Rimland diagnosed autism in his 2-year-old son Mark with the help of a college textbook. The personal discovery led to a professional crusade. "This was war," he later wrote. In 1964, he published Infantile Autism, a landmark book that argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to "refrigerator mothers" who didn't show adequate affection. An adviser to the makers of Rain...
...DIED. Bernard Rimland, 78, psychologist who pioneered modern autism research and advocacy; in El Cajon, California. Infantile Autism, Rimland's landmark 1964 book, argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then-conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to inadequate parental affection. An adviser on 1998's Rain Man-his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning turn as an autistic savant-Rimland also controversially claimed food allergies and some metals could trigger autism, and vitamins could help treat...
Anyone who has visited Paris' Parc des Princes stadium over the years has long anticipated the tragedy that former French national soccer goalie Bernard Lama last week lamented with a platitude wrapped in hindsight. "Everyone knew that when the first death from fan violence occurred in France, it would happen in Paris," commented Lama less than 24 hours after a supporter of his former team Paris Saint-Germain was shot and killed by plain clothes police officer trying to protect a young Jewish man from an anti-Semitic mob of nearly 150 marauding PSG fans. "All the elements were there...
Thankfully, others advocated otherwise, defending the hard-fought conclusions of the Task Force on General Education. Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann replied: “George Bernard Shaw once said, ‘People who are merely specialists are basically idiots.’” The promulgation of knowledge, Hoffmann seemed to say, must extend beyond mere methodology if it is to help students to accomodate the real challenges they will face beyond college. Most of us are not in the running to become scholars content in understanding one specialized area of the world, as Mankiw?...