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...with some Parisian notables, was François-Henri Pinault, the affable CEO of PPR (formerly Pinault-Printemps Redoute), which owns Bottega Veneta and other high-end brands such as Gucci. At the center table, surrounded by furniture dealers and a smattering of old friends, sat Tomas Maier, 49, the German-born creative director of Bottega Veneta and the designer largely responsible for ushering in a profitable countertrend of subtlety and refinement to the overblown, logo-besotted luxury market. The mood he had created for the dinner jibed seamlessly with the mood he has established at the brand: understated...
...many [people] working on that, especially in Italian Renaissance architecture.” The Planck award not only honors Payne’s accomplishments but recognizes her for her potential, he added. The Max Planck Society selects two scholars each year for this award—one German and one not—with an eye toward the future, according to the society’s website. The society seeks a winner “from whom continued high-caliber scientific work can be expected in the context of an international cooperation.” Winners receive...
...Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept getting stuck in the stuff," Omar says. So far the Norwegians' political gamble seems...
Weng went on to lose to eventual champion Steffen Launer of Germany. Ungar has defeated Launer in the past, beating the German in his home country at an earlier World Cup event...
...Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a terrorist organization working to liberate the Emerald Isle from British rule, has just detonated a bomb at Scotland Yard. Barker and Llewelyn immediately offer their services to the government and infiltrate a secretive IRB faction, posing as a German bomb maker and his assistant. They must work to earn the group’s trust while preparing to stop its ultimate plan to bring London to its knees—without concern for innocent life and perhaps more for personal than national gain, of course. Llewelyn, for his part, must also fight against his desire...