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...losing its direction. "People didn't really know what the brand stood for," says Critchell, formerly of Cartier, who took over as CEO of Dunhill in 2001. Last year, after a total image overhaul spearheaded by Yann Debelle de Montby, director of image and communication, the brand's famous Jermyn Street store reopened as a haven for men looking for that quintessentially English accessory. The store also features a traditional barbershop and a series of Dunhill's inventions?one favorite, the "windshield pipe," designed to keep the tobacco lit through wind or rain, ignited the Dunhill reputation that is being...
...losing its direction. "People didn't really know what the brand stood for," says Critchell, formerly of Cartier, who took over as ceo of Dunhill in 2001. Last year, after a total image overhaul spearheaded by Yann Debelle de Montby, director of image and communication, the brand's famous Jermyn Street store reopened as a haven for men looking for that quintessentially English accessory. The store also features a traditional barbershop and a series of Dunhill's inventions - one favorite, the "windshield pipe," designed to keep the tobacco lit through wind or rain, ignited the Dunhill reputation that is being...
...somewhat obsessive. He cannot stay away from the subject. He mentions an American agent who dresses too well, and this reminds him of Dicky Cruyer's kind: "The public-school senior staff at London Central spent just as much money on their Savile Row suits' and handmade shirts and Jermyn Street shoes, but they wore them with a careless scruffiness that was a vital part of their snobbery. A real English gentleman never tries; that was the article of faith." His complaints about silly and selfish women, notably Fiona's vacant sister and Volkmann's troublemaking wife, also deserve...
...payments are allowed - experts agree that the days of graft on a grand scale are over. "It can't be the way it was," says Lucinda Low, a leading U.S. anticorruption lawyer. "That kind of open [corruption] has changed." But what is hidden may simply become harder to find. Jermyn Brooks, executive director of Transparency International, a group that fights corruption, worries that the new laws against bribes just mean that "much subtler methods are used to achieve the same ends," including using agents or subcontractors to make payments under the table. Transparency International and other activists say that...
...they did not show on videos shot at secret locations. "Following an intensive review of our surveillance videotapes, the two individuals have been disqualified from the race and their names will be removed from the results," said Guy Morse, the race director. The new winners? Anthony Cerminaro, 60, of Jermyn, Pa., and Susan Gustafson, 50, of Norwell, Ma. And they?ve got the blisters to prove...