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...course, this being the fashion industry, none of these ideas are exactly new. In 1999, 222-year-old Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., licensed its name to an Italian firm, which emblazons it on college-athlete-inspired T-shirts and sweatshirts, complete with fake school crests. National Geographic beat Field & Stream to the punch, launching menswear in 2005. And neither of them is even the most unlikely fashion patron. Kenny Chesney's a designer now, selling his Blue Chair Bay line in three locations in the South...
...Washington D.C., London, Berlin, and Ottawa - are demanding that the U.S. take back protective control of the camp. In the long term, they'd like permanent U.N. protection for the dissidents. Several lawmakers and lawyer groups in Britain are voicing their support. On Sept. 9, London-based law firm Finers Stephens Innocent released a legal opinion calling on Iraq to respect the Geneva Convention in protecting the camp dwellers - and insisting the U.S. ensure their safety. (Full disclosure: Finers Stephens Innocent has represented TIME in the past...
...companies while another 22 have filed for approval, according to Prime Database. But that flow may slow as market sentiment sours. "Investors have been disappointed by the after-market performance of some big names," says the Mumbai investment banker, who asked not to be identified because his firm is involved in some of the issues. "It's not as easy to get a listing done now, it is taking a lot more marketing and investors want to be absolutely sure of the quality of the company as opposed to the appeal of a sector. But liquidity is not an issue...
...portions of the road between the embassy and the guard base in Camp Sullivan several miles off. But this action violated ArmorGroup's contract, which is only for static security - that is, guards at specified posts. (The role of traveling bodyguards for embassy personnel is contracted out to another firm, Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater.) What's more, the mission left remaining embassy security personnel without any night-vision equipment, or "largely night blind," as the POGO letter...
...Wackenhut has found itself managing the Kabul embassy contract anyway. In June, Wackenhut vice president Samuel Brinkley admitted to Congress, "We feel we can safely say that adequate guard services for the Kabul embassy cannot be provided for the contract price." Instead of making a profit, he said, the firm was losing $1 million a month. "We would welcome any help that the [Senate] Subcommittee [on Contracting Oversight, of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs] might be able to provide to enable the government to pay a more reasonable price for security for the embassy...