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...Vecchio, 50, a soft-spoken Italian, has been working ever since to prove that not only does that dress-for-dinner lifestyle still exist, but selling clothes to match it is profitable. During the 1990s, as part of the British retailer Marks & Spencer, Brooks Brothers embraced the business-casual look and moved toward the Banana Republic slice of the retail spectrum, even producing its own line of jeans. As CEO and chairman, Del Vecchio has yanked the company back to its higher-brow heritage by rolling out new cuts of suits, reinvigorating the made-to-order and tailor shops, overhauling...
...don’t have a crystal ball, to say this, that, and the other is going to happen;” Amaker says. “We’re hopeful for the best right now.” Timetables don’t exist now, while the coach is only a few months into his tenure. There is hope, but there is also so much that is unknown—whether the past can be ignored, whether present potential can be fulfilled, and whether in the future, things can be different.TALE OF TWO PASTSAmaker began his collegiate career...
...silence the way the Coens have in “No Country.” One of its most noticeable features is what lacks: a soundtrack. Virtually free of artificial sound, viewers experience the barren vistas of south Texas as McCarthy intended—an antediluvian void where angels exist, but far more devils can be found. In the midst of the total quiet, tension swells, revelations spread, and the great, monolithic equilibrium of chance reigns free. Set in 1980, the plot centers around Josh Brolin’s character, a hunter and Vietnam veteran who stumbles upon a suitcase...
...some people, however, limiting employment based on nationality is patently discriminatory and anti-competitive. John Macdonald, a European Commission spokesman, says the proposed rule violates E.U. law. "A quota is not compatible with the fundamental freedom of movement rights that exist in the European Union," says Macdonald, who adds that restrictions based on nationality are considered "direct discrimination...
...reliable data exist on how many U.S. children are gender variant, although the National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that as many as 3 million American adults are. But studies suggest that gender-variant adolescents are two to three times more likely to attempt suicide than other teens. Now, increasingly, hormone treatments that delay physical maturity are being seen as a lifesaving alternative for gender-variant kids, but the remedy is also generating medical and ethical questions about interfering with the natural development process. The treatment--a series of injections to interrupt the brain cascade that launches puberty by regulating...