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...brothers and co-owners Emmanuel and Thomas Saujet of Cannes began peddling Hanae Mori, a fragrance they developed, to U.S. retailers. Ten years later, it turns more than $20 million in annual global sales. "The first three years were worse than boot camp," admits Thomas. The real coup was winning in 2004 the North American rights to distribute the much coveted fragrance brand Creed, maker of scents for the likes of Princess Grace. Emmanuel and Thomas have new titles, vice chairman and president, respectively, for the launch this year of a new fragrance and a luxury skin-care line...
...documentation has a fresh and welcome air to it. Clearly, he has no time for those who would romanticize old Tibet, or traffic in images of Shangri-La: Tibetans were more than capable of brutality against themselves, he points out, with at least 200 monks dying during an attempted coup in Lhasa in 1947, and the city was never as detached from modern life as the starry-eyed like to believe?Elizabeth Arden cosmetics and the latest Bing Crosby records were freely available there long before the Chinese arrived. Barnett goes out of his way to say nothing about exiled...
...Covert operations rarely come off exactly as planned. But last week's coup at the CIA, orchestrated by White House officials and Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, went only slightly awry--and only at the last moment. Bush officials had hoped to take the weekend to quietly prepare for the surprise announcement that Air Force General Michael Hayden would replace embattled CIA Director Porter Goss, with the two appearing together at the White House early this week. But Goss, a former spook who used to run covert operations in Latin America, wanted to control the choreography...
...shot up to 14% in recent months, thanks, apparently, to the riots in the banlieues last fall and the government's capitulation to the protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat less incendiary alternative to Le Pen, landed a media coup last month with his claim that Muslim radicals had systematically infiltrated the ground crew and support staff of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. Official sources within France's police intelligence agency have contested Villiers' sources, but the prospect that he could be even partially right means Sarkozy - whose responsibility...
...shot up to 14% in recent months, thanks, apparently, to the riots in the banlieues last fall and the government's capitulation to the protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat less incendiary alternative to Le Pen, landed a media coup last month with his claim that Muslim radicals had systematically infiltrated the ground crew and support staff of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. Official sources within France's police intelligence agency have contested Villiers' sources, but the prospect that he could be even partially right means Sarkozy - whose responsibility...