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...Mickey Drexler, ex-chief of the Gap, has jump-started the brand by revamping the quality of its merchandise. But the economic downturn has not left J. Crew unscathed - profits fell 6% through the first three quarters of fiscal 2008. "It's a huge deal," says Marshal Cohen, retail analyst for the NPD Group, of the Inaugural exposure. "This is something you get once in a lifetime. J. Crew will take this and run with it." Betty Chen, an equity analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, predicts an immediate bump in J. Crew's children's clothing sales. She points...
...Cohen, Sacha Baron • Golden Globes audience is grimly unamused by amusing mocking of Madonna, Charlie Sheen and Victoria Beckham...
...interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Baron-Cohen made front-page headlines in his home country by expressing confidence that his research would soon allow doctors to screen for autism through amniocentesis - which involves extraction of amniotic fluid with a needle - the same procedure that allows parents to test for Down syndrome, and decide whether to terminate a pregnancy. Although a prenatal measure of testosterone is not a definitive test for autism, Baron-Cohen suggested that a debate was needed over whether such a test would be desirable...
...debate comes on the heels of the announcement of Britain's first fetus screened for the breast-cancer gene, BRCA-1, which sparked a wider debate over "designer babies" - a discussion that even Baron-Cohen's supporters say is premature when it comes to autism. "We are a long way from unlocking the mysteries of autism in a way that could give us those abilities," says Adams. "Saying someone has autism is like saying someone has a fever; they have a set of symptoms, but we don't know yet what could be the cause or causes." If such...
...played Borat [Sasha Cohen] already came to Harvard for Class Day. And Russell Peters would be a toned-down version...