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NAME VALERIE HERMANN...
Salvation, not surprisingly, started with a handbag. "We need a bag," Valerie Hermann announced two weeks after taking over as CEO of Yves Saint Laurent. "We need a good bag, something that will sell...
...lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." Robert Byrd declaimed that quote to the Senate, as Congress was debating whether to authorize the President to go to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Then Byrd read the source: Hermann Goering...
...right one. A team of anthropologists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, developed a battery of learning tests they call the Primate Cognition Test Battery, and gave it to 106 chimps, 105 children and 32 orangutans, to compare the groups directly. Says Esther Hermann, a co-author of the paper: "It's the first time anything like this has been done...
There are ample grounds to wonder. The genuineness of the skull so cherished by Goethe was first questioned in 1883, when an anatomist named Hermann Welcker claimed it didn't jibe with Schiller's death mask. Some 30 years later, in 1911, the mass gravesite was searched again, turning up 63 additional skulls. Another anatomist, August von Froriep, declared one of them to be Schiller's, and in 1914, it too was placed in the ducal vault...