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...executive vice president in charge of movies, says the network is trying to figure out how many script pages should be devoted to Sept. 11: "We're at the five- or six-page option in the first draft, and we have to see whether we want to expand that." The risk, he says, is coming off as exploitative...
...Trade Center fell, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was designed "[t]o deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more than 1,200 people in the U.S., Americans and foreign nationals, in the name of the war against terrorism. Most were picked up on immigration violations, their hearings closed...
...like trying to sell ice to the Eskimos," says a London fashion writer. "It's like trying to sell sand to the Arabs," sniffs an executive at a competing British fashion house. The news that Ralph Lauren, the icon of American style, is pushing hard to expand in Europe is being greeted with a certain degree of skepticism. And bitchiness. Who needs a mass American brand like Lauren's when you have the class of Armani, Zegna, Dior and Savile Row? Sure, Europeans are happy to wear a polo player by Lauren instead of an alligator by Lacoste when summering...
...thought of another home (he already has six), another vintage car (he has 60) or even the desire for a private plane (he has one of those too) that is pushing Lauren to expand. It's pride. Lauren doesn't talk about his stock price in monetary terms. He calls it "a report card, which gets issued every day." And right now--with the stock of Polo Ralph Lauren hovering around $20, some $10 less than its IPO price--the company is getting poor marks. "When I went public, I had a great business," Lauren says. "I don't think...
...Wednesday, Khatami broke with over five years of fruitlessly pursuing conciliation, issuing an unprecedented legal challenge to hard-liners monopoly on state power. Addressing reporters in Tehran, the president announced his plan to submit a bill to parliament - where his reform policies enjoy majority support - seeking to expand his executive powers under the constitution. And he didn't pull his own punches either, telling the media that hard-liners had prevented him from fulfilling his responsibilities as the Iran's duly-elected president. "My repeated warning on violations of the constitution have been ignored," he said...