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...week, Helmut Lang, the Austrian-born ready-to-wear designer and reigning minimalist of the '90s, resigned from his own company, which is owned by the Prada Group. The move ended a feud with Prada CEO Patrizio Bertelli over how to reverse losses at Lang's line. In the mid-'90s, Lang's sales were as high as $100 million. When he sold a 51% stake in his namesake brand in 1999, Lang touted Bertelli as a guy who "understands the culture of a high-end product," and said, "His line is very, very well managed." Bertelli, who later purchased...
...foster disunity - despite the fact that it was her forceful rhetoric that helped keep demonstrators' spirits high during the street protests that brought Yushchenko to power. But questions persist about her integrity, especially about how she acquired her wealth - estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars - during the mid-1990s when she ran the country's largest energy firm. Last September, at the height of Ukraine's presidential campaign, Russian military prosecutors placed Tymoshenko on Interpol's wanted list, alleging that in 1996-97 she bribed Russian officers to buy Ukrainian goods from her companies. Tymoshenko dismisses those charges...
...Sundance, Paramount and MTV Films paid $9 million for Hustle & Flow, about a pimp with a mid-life crisis, and gave producer John Singleton an additional $7 million for two future films...
...Sunnyvale to a hotel in Mountain View and down a quiet cul-de-sac to a suburban house in San Jose. The technology exporter, according to court papers, had purchased sophisticated computer components in the U.S. to send to Russia through Ireland. He now stands to be charged in mid-February with "unlawful export of 'defense articles.'" U.S. officials point to this little-noticed case as one manifestation of a troubling reality: although the cold war is long over, Russia is fielding an army of spooks in the U.S. that is at least equal in number to the one deployed...
...Stolk-Riley said he was told Richard L. Picott, the Yard Operations manager for freshman dorms and Dudley House, that the pipe burst was caused by an open window in an IRC office. But van Stolk-Riley disagreed saying that the window in question had not been open since mid-December. “It’s no big deal,” said van Stolk-Riley. “We just don’t want to be blamed for having the windows open if we didn?...