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...really is putting a fresh stamp on Paris. The idea has taken root. Goodbye wicker, hello chintz. Café owners across Paris have been imitating the Costes' haute-design blueprint to the point where it risks turning into a new café cliché. How much does the Costes formula bring in? As a patchwork of private companies - or "an informal network whose members have been tied to one another since birth," as Gilbert, 54, puts it - they're not required to say. Pressed, Gilbert figures the whole collection throws off some j100 million a year, although that's probably...
...Starck, who modeled the interior after the railroad station in Budapest. Kaboom! Before long, Starck was a star and Café Costes was taking in five times as much money as it had before his makeover. The brothers have been cloning versions of Café Costes ever since. The formula that the Costes have applied is hands-off, within limits. Jean-Louis is a detail freak who leaves nothing to chance. "I'm not much on management, but I'm a positive nut about marketing," he says. "I'll happily leave management to the individuals who run each place...
...sufficient and experienced armies of India, Pakistan, Turkey, France, Russia and Germany have been rebuffed on the grounds that these countries are unable to contribute troops to what is currently, in legal terms, a U.S.-British occupation of Iraq. That's why the administration is currently seeking a creative formula that would win UN authorization for an international force that would nonetheless remain under U.S. command. But while such an arrangement may accommodate some of the concerns raised by the reluctant nations, the more important challenge the U.S. will face is the demand to begin ceding its political authority...
...CHANGE YOUR DIAPERS Keep an extra supply of diapers, formula and baby food around. (And remember to update your diaper stash as your baby grows. It happens fast, and a year-old baby in a 3-month-old's diaper is not a pretty picture...
...fear of the fallout, Seoul's favored unification formula is a glacial process of investment and economic exchanges that slowly develop the North's economy, leading to peace, then a common constitution and parliament, and ultimately formal unification. Even if the Kim regime suddenly collapses, the think tankers favor installing an interim government in Pyongyang until the North can catch up economically...