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...perfect time to bone up on your fashion history. This fall Assouline is publishing a trio of designer biographies--The Journey of a Woman: 20 Years of Donna Karan (228 pages), Carolina Herrera (208 pages) and Marc Jacobs (80 pages). On the heels of Ford's final catwalk bow comes Tom Ford (Rizzoli; 384 pages), which catalogs the meticulous designer's decade of work for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. And when the edifying is done, these books work even better on the coffee table than by the bedside. --BY KATE NOVACK
...press conference, executives from MTFG and UFJ announced that they had agreed to consolidate, a pairing that would create the world's largest bank, with assets of $1.7 trillion, outstripping U.S.-based Citigroup and Japan's Mizuho Holdings. But Yoshifumi Nishikawa, SMFG's iconoclastic CEO, has refused to bow out gracefully. Shortly after MTFG's deal was announced, he offered to merge with UFJ in a one-for-one stock swap valued at $29 billion?a generous 30% premium to UFJ's average market value over the past six months. "We went public with the merger proposal so that...
...Chhoden beat 11th-seeded Chinese Lin Sang in the women's draw, and Peljor outshot No. 13 seed Jocelyn de Grandis of France in the men's. Both lost in the next round, but Chhoden says: "I couldn't have made it here without the scholarship." An Olympic-standard bow costs about $2,000 - nearly three times the annual per capita income in Bhutan. MARIA MUTOLA Olympic Solidarity was the model for the Maria Mutola Foundation, which funds promising young Mozambican athletes. "Solidarity is huge, my foundation is small, but I've tried to do the same thing," she says...
...done with swords, shields and wirework, action coordinator Tony Ching offers soldiers clinging to thin green trees, hurling hand-carved, hollow bamboo spears that whistle through the air like artillery shells. Sword fighting is old hat for Zhang Ziyi now, but Kaneshiro plays like he was born to the bow; maybe he's been taking archery lessons from Orlando Bloom. Lau, whose Mandarin had to be dubbed for the film, suffers in an underwritten role, although director Zhang does find the coldness buried in the deepening lines of the veteran pop idol's face...
Former Harvard history professor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ’38 is also in attendance, chatting with friends in his trademark red bow tie. Also present is filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, co-director of the 1992 Clinton campaign documentary The War Room. Pennebaker made James Carville a star; I consider asking him to film me, but I think better...