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...Uemura started a company called Japan Makeup, which began with a stylish, gallery-like boutique in Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando district. The company became Shu Uemura Cosmetics in 1983, riding the wave of the fast-growing Japanese economy, taking advantage of the country's overflowing consumerism and hunger for Western trends. Uemura combined art, nature and technology to build a line of cosmetics and beauty products that soon went global and now pulls in an estimated $100 million in sales from Shu Uemura stores in fashion centers worldwide...
These days, in our therapeutic culture, an ambitious politician can neutralize almost any human weakness or hunger and even turn it into a plus, as part of his or her life story. Sin and redemption have nearly become requirements for presidential candidates. Our current President has practically admitted to having been an alcoholic. It's not clear how many marriages add up to a serious disqualification, but thanks to Rudy Giuliani, we know that the number is more than three. The one sin for which redemption and forgiveness are not available is ambition...
...excuse that it is a national issue and therefore it must be handled at a national level - I say to myself, "Wait a minute, let me think this through for a second," which we always do, we think a little bit. If you have a national problem with hunger and starvation, do I say, "Stop feeding people at the local level. We can't get involved. We have to have a policy nationally...
...France's newfound hunger for celebrity tidbits a sign of its increasing Americanization? Johnson says she believes Bruni's star status, coupled with the kinetic 52-year-old President, is driving the strong interest in Sarkozy's sex life. "The constellation of power and glamour is pretty irresistible, especially in a place as fashion conscious as this," she says. "This would be like Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy." Among his detractors in France, the president has regularly been called "Sarko l'americain." And like Kennedy, Sarkozy has carefully crafted his image as the modernizing President who will shatter outdated...
...Europe itself is not a big arms customer. The real hunger lies in oil-rich and third-world countries eager to modernize their armies. Unlike the 1980s, when France nurtured military ties with African governments - selling massive arms systems in return for political backing - France has few natural allies to whom to sell weapons. Two months ago Morocco - France's former colony and close neighbor - rejected the Rafale and instead bought Lockheed Martin's F-16 fighter jet, which has seen years of combat, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the French Air Force hasn't bought all the Rafale...