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...Back in May, Valentino told TIME that he was thinking of retiring and was waiting for a successor to be chosen. He said that his preferences were Nicholas Ghèsquiere of Balenciaga or Alexander McQueen. "Someone who knows fashion," he explained, although it is unclear how much say the couturier really had in the choice, given that Permira had already targeted Facchinetti when they closed the deal on the Valentino purchase...
...began as a spinoff of American Media Inc.'s National Enquirer - a way of keeping the old presses running when the Enquirer switched to color. Though the staid name chosen for the paper suggested a down-market version of Foreign Affairs, it was for its first few years one more celebrity gossip rag. Then Eddie Clontz became editor, and WWN gleefully leapt into the quicksand of fake news. (Read all about the paper's history in a comprehensive Washington Post obit...
...Last Supper (where the main course was pizza). But the supreme WWN Biblical expos?e, which I read in 1994, had a headline that read, as I recall, "Second Coming Came and Went!" The story reported that Jesus had returned as He'd promised and taken all the chosen souls back to Heaven with Him. The rest of us, the unchosen, might have thought we were still on Earth, but we were actually living in Hell...
Harvard has consistently placed within the top few slots and has chosen to continue to participate in the rankings, which boast a readership of about two million, despite growing opposition among some college presidents, especially at liberal arts colleges...
...chief homeland-security adviser on the campaign, Giuliani has chosen Robert Bonner, a partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn and a former head of the U.S. Customs Service. But Giuliani's most surprising security adviser so far is his old friend former FBI director Louis Freeh. Freeh's stewardship of the FBI during the eight years before the bureau's most spectacular failure makes him an unusual choice. The 9/11 commission report concluded that Freeh and his FBI had failed to adapt to reality: "Freeh recognized terrorism as a major threat ... [His] efforts did not, however, translate into...