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Sitting under a vast photograph of her father's hand???"My father was always very careful about how he touched silk"?Ratti is ensconced in her office in the new headquarters, built in 1999. Like her father, Ratti is a sharp businessperson with a passion for the creative process. She pays frequent visits to clients like John Galliano at Dior and listens to their ideas and vision to glean ideas of her own. "You listen a lot, but you also propose a lot," she says. Depending on the designer Ratti is dealing with, it can go either way. Some...
...that in 1990 united West and East Germany on the dotted line. President John F. Kennedy offered his to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1963 so he could sign the city of Cologne's Golden Book. In the past century the Montblanc fountain pen has been on hand???and in hand???at the world's most historic moments. Created in 1906 by three residents of Hamburg, Germany, who were tired of messy inkwells, Montblanc launched its Rouge et Noir fountain pen in 1908. Two years later the trio introduced the Montblanc fountain pen, named for the snow-covered summit of western...
Rapton does know that when he took a tour of the Hebei Zhongxing Automobile factory south of Beijing last November, he watched workers weld vehicle components together by hand???an assembly scene out of the '50s. But after his son test-drove a few models, Rapton started to think he could sell China's cars in the U.S. Setting aside doubts about Hebei's quality control, he signed a "memo of understanding" to negotiate an import deal. "It might take them a year or two to get started," he says, "but I'm willing to take my chances...
...hotel lobby. It came to seem that this wasn't a worthy way for a grown man to spend his life. You have good seats, sure, but you're always on the sidelines. You're not making anything. Auden has a wonderful essay?it's in The Dyer's Hand???about how young people want to be writers. He says it's something the Greeks understood. The writer is somebody who makes something with his own hands. And he draws the distinction between being a maker and a drudge. Work is what a freeman did, and drudgery is what slaves...
Just in case the Nobel Committee should be accused of being precipitate?peace, after all, is not quite at hand???it issued a citation reminding the world that its new laureates still had a long road to travel in their search for brotherhood. The purpose of the awards, said the committee, was "not only to honor actions already performed in the service of peace, but also to encourage further efforts to work out practical solutions." Both the winners had awaited the announcement with mounting excitement, and both pronounced themselves delighted...