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...their heads and said I was crazy," says Massimo Suppancig, the CEO of Valextra, a 67-year-old Milan-based leather-goods company once famous for catering to the likes of Maria Callas and Grace Kelly. In its heyday, Valextra had been known for filling extravagant custom orders - the Emir of Kuwait once commissioned 14 sets of hippopotamus-skin luggage. But over the past two decades, the business had declined and licensing deals had diminished the name. Enter Suppancig in 2003, a former Hugo Boss and Escada executive who immediately recognized the brand's rich heritage and set to work...
...their heads and said I was crazy," says Massimo Suppancig, the CEO of Valextra, a 67-year-old Milan-based leather-goods company once famous for catering to the likes of Maria Callas and Grace Kelly. In its heyday, Valextra had been known for filling extravagant custom orders-the Emir of Kuwait once commissioned 14 sets of hippopotamus-skin luggage. But over the past two decades, the business had declined and licensing deals had diminished the name. Enter Suppancig in 2003, a former Hugo Boss and Escada executive who immediately recognized the brand's rich heritage and set to work...
...Eyewitnesses describe Makasan's father as the emir, or head, of the group that took over the mosque. But Makasan and his fellow villagers refuse to believe that Mae Ai was the leader of the Krue Se militants. The Mae Ai they knew couldn't be the same man who, it is suspected, initiated the killings by slashing to death an unsuspecting policeman with a machete. "My father just went to the mosque to pray," Makasan says, barely able to contain his fury. "He was a good Muslim, and the Thai army killed...
Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 53, the Emir of Qatar, has shouldered the political burden and financial cost of sponsoring al-Jazeera. With an estimated 35 million viewers, the network is being imitated across the region. Al-Jazeera has angered Arab governments by giving airtime to rebel movements and freedom advocates and tackling taboo topics like polygamy and apostasy. And Arab opinion has been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended...
Skeptics sneer that the Emir has used al-Jazeera to put his tiny country on the map. He insists that the channel reflects a wind of change blowing through the Middle East. Arab regimes are certainly feeling more than a breeze. --By Scott MacLeod