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What's interesting is just how calculating Stroll and Chou are about this launch. Time was, a fashion designer would land on Seventh Avenue and either strike the right chord or strike out. These days, no one can afford to be so haphazard. After picking their designer, Stroll and Chou targeted four department-store chains where they saw a void in the designer better market--including Federated, May Department Stores, Saks Inc. and Dillard's. Then they signed several licensing deals including watches and men's suits, shirts and ties. To prevent the stores from cherry picking, they made...
...long played a role in the Chechen insurgency. The Russian crackdown, which began late in 1999 as Putin sent in troops to reverse the autonomy granted the region by former President Boris Yeltsin following a series of unsolved apartment bombings in Moscow - a brutal campaign that struck a popular chord and served as the would-be president's introduction to Russian voters - has certainly given Chechens plenty of reason to contemplate attacking Russians. Thousands of Chechens have been killed in the course of the crackdown, and scores of fighting-age men continue to simply disappear following visits to their homes...
...outset by the U.S.-run Coalition Provisional Authority when it denied him a seat on the Iraqi Governing Council, set up shortly after the war. Cut out of the political process, al-Sadr soon began delivering fiery sermons denouncing the council, the U.S. and the occupation. That struck a chord among the angry, restless young men of the slum neighborhood renamed Sadr City for al-Sadr's father. So did his Arab origins, which had always set the al-Sadr line apart from the Iranian-born Shi'ite ayatullahs like Sistani. For radicals who want to see religious power...
...life's mysteries may rile some religious conservatives. One onscreen participant, Columbia philosopher David Albert, has already complained that his remarks, which appear to support the film's spiritual premise, were taken out of context. (The filmmakers deny it.) Yet for its fans, the film is striking a chord. "There are a lot of people in metaphysical closets out there," says Arntz...
...sadness. "There may be a bit more acceptance of horror because of what's going on in the world today," says George Romero, director of the classic Night of the Living Dead. "When people feel threatened, they either go to pure entertainment or to something that might strike a chord with the fears they have in real life...