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From the outset, Baker took bold steps to show the fashion community that he was serious about turning around the brand. He met with vendors, publications and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) asking for advice and partnerships. He recently started a new company called Creative Design Studios that will own all of Lord & Taylor's proprietary brands and invest heavily in up-and-coming American designers, like Cynthia Steffe, regardless of whether they sell to his store. He has become a major underwriter of the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund, which mentors and financially assists young talent. Seventy...
...Darfur and China's role there. Then in March, actress Mia Farrow wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal calling for a boycott of what she labeled the "Genocide Olympics." The campaign may have had some effect on Chinese behavior. After using its vote on the Security Council to block U.N. intervention in Darfur for four years, Beijing reversed course in July, endorsing the creation of a force of 26,000 soldiers and police officers to uphold a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and rebel forces...
Peter Beinart is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
...France, of course, is not one of Iran's neighbors, and most of those countries would read the French comments as part of an effort to fabricate a sense of crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Indeed, even as Fillon spoke, the Gulf Cooperation Council - which includes such key U.S. allies as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait - was moving to open trade talks with Tehran despite U.S. calls for Iran?s isolation. And Egypt was hosting a high-level Iranian diplomatic delegation in talks aimed at normalizing relations, rejecting talk of confrontation and instead demanding...
...Clearly, the U.N. process is not going to yield the results desired by the U.S. and its allies any time soon. The latest Iran-IAEA agreement has sharply diminished chances of the U.N. Security Council approving any further sanctions against Iran this fall, and the French call for unilateral European sanctions has been rebuffed by Italy (Iran's largest European trading partner) and sharply criticized by Russia. A deeper problem lies in the fact that the West sees uranium enrichment itself - to which Iran is entitled under the Non-Proliferation Treaty - as unacceptable, because it would give Iran the means...