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...country's No. 1-selling jeans brand. That same year, Akarlilar invested $20 million to set up Europe's largest integrated fashion jeans factory in Cerkezkoy, a tiny hamlet in rural western Turkey, 120 km from Istanbul. More than 1,500 people work here at the company's mammoth factory in the middle of rolling farmland, churning out up to 11 million pairs of jeans a year, more than half of which are for well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Guess, Esprit and Mustang, and the rest for Mavi. State-of-the-art production facilities at Cerkezkoy gave Mavi...
...mammoth 322-page guide is the first comprehensive publication on resources for black students, and contains a history of blacks at the College. It has listings of professors, restaurants and hair salons, and has facetious commentary about black life at the College...
Pulikovsky claims Kim encouraged him to write the account of the trip, saying, "There are too many mysteries about me; let the people know the truth." When Albright was in Pyongyang, Kim took her to a packed stadium to witness a mammoth, highly scripted display of support for the regime. "He took great personal pride in having choreographed a lot of it," she recalls. Albright concluded that Kim saw himself as a director of a great drama, someone with a flair if not a weakness for the big show. Certainly that is a trait on display now. --With reporting...
...actor; Charlie Chaplin directed all his own features. But from the start of the Academy Awards in 1928 through the '70s, only two actors turned directors won even an Oscar nomination for directing: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet. And they were so mammoth, so legendary, that few actors dared imitate them. The auteur corps was replenished by craftsmen who made their names as writers, cameramen and editors and by directors imported from the stage and TV, but not by actors...
...ideal for cinema-like home theater systems?and displays keep getting bigger. LG.Philips lcd recently announced a prototype for a 52-inch model that will be the largest commercial lcd TV available if the company brings it to market on schedule late next year. Samsung Electronics is offering a mammoth 63-inch plasma model. With choices multiplying and prices falling, O'Donovan offers this advice to buyers interested in flat-screen models: Wait. "If you can hold out, in two years' time the prices will start falling into that sweet spot," he says...