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Stroll and Chou intend to change that by turning Michael Kors into a $1 billion brand within a decade and taking the company public along the way. It's an ambitious plan to say the least, but they've done this kind of thing before. Canadian-born Stroll and Hong Kong--based Chou were the masterminds behind Ralph Lauren's international licensing deals throughout Europe in the 1980s. In the '90s, they put their money and Seventh Avenue experience behind a novice designer named Tommy Hilfiger. They took Hilfiger from a $25 million jeans business to a $1.8 billion global...
...woman meet on a bridge. They both intend suicide but instead fall in love. She joins his knife-throwing...
...message, and last week he flipped so often between vows of violence and offers to negotiate that even when the two-week-old standoff between his Mahdi Army and combined U.S. and Iraqi-government forces seemed about to end, it wasn't clear if it had. Did he really intend to quit the shrine? Or was he actually planning to resume combat, as he later urged his followers, against the enemy forces still poised outside? As one of his spokesmen, Sheik Ahmed al-Shebani, put it, "Tomorrow I don't know what will happen. There could be war. There could...
...Americans are using to make their breakthrough wines--the ones to finally set them apart from French Bordeaux and Spanish Rioja. Malbec, another recently revived red-wine varietal, already represents a quarter of Argentina's wine exports and is hailed as the nation's new vinicultural emblem. "Now we intend to place Argentine wines among the best in the world," says Ernesto Catena, 37, leaping over Malbec casks at his family's Catena Zapata winery in the Mendoza region. Even Uruguay, whose coups until now were usually only military, is seeing its obscure Tannat reds served by U.S. sommeliers like...
...young children. Las Vegas is an elegant and entertaining city of great hotels and restaurants, wonderful shows and child-friendly arcades. But the pictures of strip clubs in your story were off-putting. You even made the Mandalay Bay's casino look seedy and cheap. What did you intend to do, keep middle-class people from visiting? Monica Stevens Farmington, Michigan, U.S. Las Vegas' slogan proclaims, "what happens here, stays here!" But the main thing that stays there is your money. Brad Miller Encinitas, California, U.S. Your story about Las Vegas was not only about the deterioration of a culture...