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...Hermann met many people who would determine her future. Foremost was Jean-Christophe Hermann, her husband, now a telecommunications executive. PPR chief Pinault was also there, and although they were not close, he remembers her as "loyal, hardworking and easy to work with...
Homegrown When it comes to total brand awareness, Russian consumers are loyal to two local talents: Vyacheslav Zaitsev and Valentin Yudashkin. Although they both produce ready-to-wear and haute couture collections, Yudashkin is perhaps the closest thing Russia has to an international fashion celebrity, with shows in Paris, a boutique on one of Moscow's best-known streets, and lines of jeans, porcelain, fine jewelry and sunglasses...
...troubles at Northern Rock jar with the cachet the bank has enjoyed in recent years. Its low cost base, loyal customers and slick operation helped it outperform every other British banking stock in 2006. The lender - not yet 50 years old - "was a darling of the stock market," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London. "It was perceived as a good growth stock with a good model." Its approach: a limited branch network meant savings chipped in by its own customers amounted to a smaller chunk of the funds it could lend in the form of mortgages...
...notorious showboat and media hound, Sattar waved away TIME's photographer at one point, saying he was too depressed to pose for pictures. The sheik vowed to fight on nonetheless. Indeed, he swore revenge. For a time Sattar seemed to be making good on his pledge as tribal fighters loyal to him killed off and drove out insurgents from Ramadi, where al-Qaeda in Iraq had established a headquarters of sorts in the rubble of a city shattered by years of intermittent fighting. As of the summer of 2007, U.S. officials in Baghdad and Washington were publicly claiming Anbar Province...
...That's not nearly enough, of course. There was an important follow-up that Boxer didn't ask either: Without a strong, credible central government, for whom exactly is the re-retrained Iraqi army fighting? How can any Iraqi be loyal to a government that doesn't exist? And, finally, now that the Sunnis have decisively rejected the extremists, why should any American trooper sacrifice even a pinkie in this sectarian catastrophe...