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Hitler seized on the Allied hiatus to organize a 24-division counteroffensive through Belgium's Ardennes Forest in December -- and Eisenhower came into his own as a combat general. He issued the orders that cut off the Bulge -- a German penetration westward into Allied lines 45 miles wide and 65 miles deep -- and made certain it would fail. He sent the 101st Airborne to hold the key city of Bastogne, put three other divisions into the battle and ordered Patton to turn his Third Army 90 degrees to the north to cut the advancing Germans' supply lines. The German counteroffensive...
...close ties to Clinton have paid off handsomely. Veteran Washington lobbyist Anne Wexler hired Wright to represent such clients as ARCO and the American Forest and Paper Association. In one case, Wright reportedly lobbied Clinton on behalf of the paper group while sharing popcorn and watching a basketball game with him in the White House...
...activist who gave up his senior year at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, to rumble around the country in a beat-up truck, presenting some 80 slide shows of his logging photos to environmental groups. It's all in support of a bill now in Congress, the Headwaters Forest Act, that would preserve most of the remaining old-growth redwood groves, which contain trees that have survived uncut, some of them, since before Rome fell. The bill, introduced by Congressman Dan Hamburg, a Democrat from Humboldt County, has 123 co-sponsors and the support of the Clinton Administration...
...Lagerfeld was afflicted with the fuzzy-wuzzies, but he was hardly the only one: mohair will be hard to avoid this fall. In the U.S. several younger houses -- Vivienne Tam, Isaac Mizrahi, Ghost -- used it. Ralph Lauren, in a collection that relocated his country look to Sherwood Forest in the Middle Ages, featured it in rare long skirts. In his CK line, Calvin Klein had bunny minis in furry pastels...
...that seem targeted at young people -- like the infamous Joe Camel campaign -- cigarette companies claim their marketing efforts today are aimed at keeping the customers they have rather than winning new ones. "It's like preaching to the choir," says Sheri Bridges, assistant professor of management at Wake Forest University's M.B.A. school. "Tobacco companies know who their customers are and where they live. They are focusing on those people who already smoke...