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...kind of arbitrary intimidations that might inspire a damning best seller. But this empress definitely is wearing clothes. Flattering ones. And if she knows her own mind, she also knows when to change it. As Cutler pans over the final layout for September 2007, complete after a half-year's labor, the camera catches the image of a zany rubber dress from an early "textures" shoot that Coddington had loved but Wintour had removed. There it was, bound for the newsstands. Was it restored in service of the story or in deference to her invaluable right-hand woman? Only Anna...
...recent months that the words chosen by bank bosses to convey the health of their business have lost all relative meaning. Victor Blank, chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, saw "exciting prospects for the group" in its first-half results unveiled Wednesday, Aug. 5. Northern Rock "is making progress," chief executive Gary Hoffman said of the British bank's half-year results announced a day earlier. "Our first-half performance," Barclays boss John Varley reckoned the day before that, was "a good start." At HSBC, chief exec Michael Geoghegan said Monday, the first six months of the year "saw much that...
...much to the rest of the hemisphere's surprise. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has brought Zelaya and Micheletti into talks mediated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in hopes of finding a peaceful way to let Zelaya, a close Chávez ally, serve out the last half-year of his term. The left-wing and usually anti-U.S. Chávez has encouraged President Obama's involvement and even his leadership in restoring Zelaya to Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. "Obama," Chávez said last week, "do something...
...economy, that task isn't getting any easier. Worldwide, however, Audi had a strong 2007. It sold 964,151 cars, 6.5% more than in 2006, and its revenue jumped almost 8% to $52.9 billion. This year, Audi has sold 516,211 cars as of June 30--a half-year sales record and a 1.4% increase over midyear 2007 sales...
More than half of the study participants managed to lose at least 10% of their body weight within the first six months. At the half-year mark, however, most of those women relapsed and started gaining the weight back - a discouragingly common phenomenon. "The major outcome of this paper is the maintenance issue," Jakicic says. Once a patient hits her target weight, he says, it's imperative that she stick with her exercise and diet regimen to maintain her new weight...