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George Zimmer bounces briskly into the conference hall of a swank California resort tucked among wooded hills with a view of Monterey Bay. The stage is decorated with headless mannequins dressed in suits and sports shirts. There's a clothes dryer, with which an executive has just demonstrated the wrinkle-free quality of a new line of shirts. But the main act is Zimmer, founder and CEO of the Men's Wearhouse, also known as the bearded pitchman with the cornball delivery who ends every commercial for his stores with his signature line, "I guarantee it!," pronounced like a carnival...
...things happen to oddball kids who run in threes. Harry (as in Potter), Hermione and Ron endure all manner of spooky events at Hogwarts. Violet, Klaus and Sunny, better known as the Baudelaire orphans of the Lemony Snicket books, have dodged headless men and giant pinching machines...
...some priceless pieces are already known to be missing. Among them: a 3-ft. carved alabaster vase, circa 3200 B.C.; a black, headless statue of the Sumerian King Entemena, circa 2430 B.C.; a Sumerian sacred cup, circa 2600 B.C.; a copper head of an Akkadian ruler, circa 2350 B.C.; and a gold lyre from Ur, circa 2500 B.C. What else might be gone is anybody's guess...
...openness are working against the state." Despite the openness Chizh describes, dozens of Ukrainian and foreign journalists have been physically assaulted over the past three years. The impression of a media under threat has been reinforced by the fact that three have turned up dead - including Heorhiy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found by the side of a road in the Tarashchanskiy forest near Kiev in November 2000, two months after he disappeared. Gongadze had been writing articles critical of Kuchma and his top officials. That same November, Major Mykola Melnychenko, a former Kuchma bodyguard now in the U.S., released...
...what Fortuyn was advocating during the campaign. But now that message has to be carried forward by a group of political neophytes who are lined up against far more savvy coalition partners and political opponents. "Compare them to a normal political party and you do get a picture of headless chickens," says Peter Mair, professor of comparative politics at the University of Leiden. "But actually they've been remarkably coherent in pushing for their policies." In part that's because the Fortuynites were essentially preaching to the choir. Both coalition partners - the Christian Democratic cda of Prime Minister Jan Peter...