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What really worries Rumsfeld is not Congress but the spouses, members of Army families who have had about all they can take of Dad (or, increasingly, Mom) being away six, nine and 12 months a year. Unlike the Army of 1973, which largely comprised single draftees, the Army today is married with children and all-volunteer. The long deployments are stressing marriages and families to the breaking point, and most active-duty personnel have skills valued in the civilian world, as the recruiting posters promise. Holly Petraeus, wife of Major General David Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne, told Senate...
...basmati rice and Budweiser beer, may be restricted to their regions of origin [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 11]. Say it isn't so! What about French fries, Spanish omelets, Bermuda onions, Danish pastry and Belgian waffles? Will hamburgers come only from Hamburg? And frankfurters from Frankfurt? And what will become of Mom's apple pie? ESOR BEN-SOREK Rishon Le-Ziyyon, Israel
Angela Lindvall is a model, a mom and an actress. She's been photographed by the legends--greats like Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz and Bruce Weber. She's a cover girl (her face has appeared on the cover of Vogue on three continents) and the Cover Girl (as a spokeswoman for the cosmetics giant of the same name...
Young consumers are also reshaping how large sections of the economy work. Take, for example, the cinema industry. Movie houses have been almost exclusively mom-and-pop outfits and, as a result, old, dingy and broken down. But the young, high-spending crowd is enticing major corporate players to invest. Bombay-based Inox Leisure opened its first two multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges...
...Young consumers are also reshaping how large sections of the economy work. Take, for example, the cinema industry. Movie houses have been almost exclusively mom-and-pop outfits and, as a result, old, dingy and broken down. But the young, high-spending crowd is enticing major corporate players to invest. Bombay-based Inox Leisure opened its first two multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges...