Word: esteban
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...part owner of the brand, were to blame. Another CEO, Kim Winser of the British brand Aquascutum, also resigned last week, after a buyout she put together was rejected by the brand's Japanese parent company, Renown. And according to a report in Women's Wear Daily, Ungaro designer Esteban Cortezar is expected to leave the house after just three seasons, following disagreements with CEO Mounir Moufarrige. The good news for opportunistic Bergdorf shoppers? Maybe even deeper discounts on Floor Two in the fall...
...arrests of the people on board those flights were made without lawyers, without a judge's authorization," says Esteban Beltran, president of the Spanish branch of Amnesty International, which has conducted its own investigation into the secret flights. "Which means that the Spanish government colluded with illegal detentions...
...grandparents do, "to bring the black vote up to where we need it in Florida," says an Obama campaign official. Obama faces a tougher time with Latinos, who according to a recent poll favor McCain in Florida by 51% to 41%. Again, Obama is counting on younger Latinos like Esteban Morera, 18, a Miamian and UCF freshman, to keep him competitive in that community. Morera says he was undecided until McCain selected Palin last month. "It helped confirm for me that I really like Obama's ideas on solving Iraq better,"says Morera...
...than U.S. intelligence reports. (Subsequently, U.S. intelligence officials discovered that the Argentines had been planning the operation in strict secrecy for two months.) With the information came a British request for U.S. intercession to prevent the crisis. Secretary of State Haig immediately called in Argentine Ambassador to Washington Esteban Arpad Takacs and sent messages to Argentina's President Galtieri through the U.S. Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Harry Schlaudemann. When those advances were rejected, President Reagan was asked to intervene...
...Spanish government passed legislation last summer that imposes stiffer penalties on those who foment racism within sports. But even this new law may not be enough to combat a larger problem. "The real issue is that Spaniards have a habit of not taking this kind of thing seriously," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, a watchdog group. "There's a banalization, a permissiveness in the face of racist incidents that worries me more than the incidents themselves. As long as society as a whole continues to see these crimes as insignificant, they're going to recur...