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...sometimes the process is not as smooth as she envisions, and last-minute mishaps can cause snags in the creative process. For the spring 2007 Miu Miu show, for example, Prada had the idea???researched in her historical archives?of using a heavy, old-fashioned, expensive silk satin. "We printed so much, and afterward we realized that only one worked," she says. In the end she created an entire collection out of two fabrics: printed satin and plain satin. "We reprinted them three days before the show! It was a big drama...
...hardliners, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and P.L.O. Boss Yasser Arafat, even undertook a sudden trip to Jordan to try to persuade their longtime enemy, King Hussein, to boycott the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. It was an extraordinary idea???Hussein and Arafat had not met on Jordanian soil since 1970, the year that the P.L.O. virtually seized control of Amman until the King attacked and expelled them. Hussein quickly rejected the new ploy. "The King," said a Jordanian official, "will not respond to any appeals or pressures, and his moderate stance remains the same...
Sadat almost casually tried out his idea on Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau?escu during a visit to Bucharest three weeks ago. Ceau?escu, who only a few days before had received Premier Begin, said he thought it was a sound idea. Sadat did not tell Carter of his idea???then or ever. He wanted the world to know that his mission was an Egyptian initiative, and not a ploy inspired by Washington. But he felt he had to tell the Saudis. Foreign Minister Fahmy, though aware of Sadat's dream, did not take the proposal seriously. Top Egyptian military commanders...
...fact from Jerome Grossman, 52, a Massachusetts envelope manufacturer long active in the peace movement. He talked the idea over with Sam Brown Jr., 26, an lowan and former Harvard Divinity School student whom he knew from the McCarthy campaign. Brown persuaded Grossman that the businessman's first idea???a general strike on the traditional European model that would seek to stop the wheels of commerce entirely?was probably too audacious to succeed. Brown's instinct was that a quiet day of discussion and debate carried beyond the campus might well catch...
...that a great idea?...