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Metzingen, a small town in southern Germany with a population of around 22,000, seems an unlikely place for a circus troupe to pitch its tent in the middle of winter, yet what looks like a vast, tented city looms from an icy field. The isolation of the location is summed up by the banter of several guests as they step inside...
Sitting front and center in a black suit and black shirt is tonight's ringmaster: Bruno Sälzer, 50, chairman and CEO of a company founded in 1923 not far from this field. Back then, it was a small sewing outfit helmed by a guy called Hugo Boss. Today Hugo Boss AG has a retail value of $6.5 billion and?for 2006, the year of the most recent declared figures?net sales of $1.97 billion with a net profit of $170 million. It also has 9,385 full-time employees, not to mention those working for subsidiaries around the world...
...western scholarship was hard to come by, she said, but English literature was the most neglected field...
...Cambridge, Dr. Mohammed has spent hours catching up on the developments in her field she missed under the embargo...
...good shot at winning because he already beat three of the four semifinalists.” Senior Alexa Weingarden, competing in women’s saber, had the second-best finish for the Crimson after placing eighth overall. “The women’s saber field has top fencers in the national and international levels,” Brand said. “Alexa was dogged about it and worked extremely hard all four years. There’s a very small difference between the eighth place spot...