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...acts--including Bono, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and the Dixie Chicks--tinkered with their schedules and submitted to Bennett's requirements. (A love for Bennett's voice was a driving factor, though the success of Ray Charles' multiplatinum, Grammy-winning Genius Loves Company was a compelling model of the benefits of synergy.) But singing à deux can be a tricky business. "Duets are blind dates," says Bennett. "You meet people, often for the first time, and then you've got to get close enough to them to get at the soul of a song. We're trying...
...powerful forces: monetary policy and geopolitical angst. This [an error occurred while processing this directive] spells "risk reduction" for most investors - a far cry from the "risk-hungry" investment strategies that have worked so well over the past several years. Why the sudden concern about risk? One factor is that central banks are finally coming to their senses. After more than five years of ultra-loose monetary policy, the world's major monetary authorities are all on the tightening side of the policy equation for the first time since the early 1990s. As a result, interest rates are going...
...FACTOR THAT TRULY DISTINGUISHES this summer's crisis from earlier ones is the realization that Iran is a central player. Among Israelis, it is generally assumed that Hizballah had Iran's encouragement when it kidnapped the soldiers. And that view isn't held just in Jerusalem. "There isn't the slightest degree of ambiguity or doubt as to Iran's role in this," says a French foreign-affairs official. "How much coincidence could there be in Hizballah kidnapping the Israeli soldiers on the same date that ministers met in Paris to decide what measures to take on the Iranian nuclear...
...factor in the company's success, explains Khamis' daughter Farida--who, like her sister Yasmine, is a vice president of the firm--is that Oriental Weavers has been globally competitive from the start and has never relented. Khamis shattered industry standards by introducing the world's first 1 million--point carpet and created variations all the way up to 6 million point...
When 2,200 food purveyors gathered at the 52nd Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City last week, the 160,000 food products on offer ranged from the ridiculous (Fear Factor Crunchy Larva--real bugs coated in barbecue, cheddar and spicy Mexican flavors) to the sublime (D'Artagnan's Petite Mousse Truffée, a black-truffle-studded, port-infused mousse). Here's a peek at what could be showing up on your grocery shelves...