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...Sunday? Ask Louis Vuitton. The luxury retailer's revamped flagship store on the Champs Elysées has been attracting thousands of visitors every day since it reopened last October. But last week, a Paris tribunal [an error occurred while processing this directive] ruled that the luxury-goods firm has been breaking the law by opening its huge, 1,800-sq-m emporium on Sundays, one of its most heavily trafficked days. Although much Sunday trading is banned in France, Louis Vuitton had received an exemption from the Paris prefect by arguing that the store was a cultural landmark...
...been widely noted since Hayden's nomination was announced on May 8 that Kappes might return. But a public filing of the British security firm where Kappes has worked since April of last year, obtained by TIME, reveals that he indeed plans to rejoin the agency. A London filing by ArmorGroup International said flatly that "Steve Kappes, the Group's Chief Operating Officer since November 2005, will be leaving the Group in early June 2006 to accept the position of Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)." For his part ArmorGroup CEO Dave Seaton said in a statement. "Steve...
...Black Jack, Mo., made national headlines late last month when it drew its firm line. An unmarried couple with three children tried to move into the house they had just bought. The house is zoned for single family residences-and the city decided this family does not fit their legal definition of family. The couple pleaded with the city council to change the law. The city said no, and intends to evict. When this news broke, many assumed Black Jack must be one of those white, religious conservative towns in the Bible Belt. But Black Jack turned...
...work ahead of them with regard to energy policy." At the same time, he adds, "Americans should remember that when your Congress asked the international oil companies last fall to step up and provide subsidized heating fuel oil to poor residents in the U.S., only Citgo" - the oil firm owned by the Venezuelan government - "did so, despite the enormous profits the U.S. oil companies are making today...
Certainly, Paulson commands respect in financial circles. He engineered Goldman's initial public stock offering a few years ago and led the firm to record profits of $5.6 billion last year. Goldman's stock has been on a tear. He's just the kind of big-time name that Bush needs...