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Meanwhile, Leon Falic is trying to reassure his couturier. "I understand if he is nervous," Falic says of Lacroix, who still has to negotiate a contract with his new owners. "I think he will be very happy with us. We are very direct people. We're accessible. It's a family company, and we are all very family oriented." And unlike most fashion "families," still fully functional. --Reported by Sarah Raper Larenaudie/Paris
...America's most innovative architects; in New Canaan, Connecticut. In the 1930s, Johnson helped introduce America to the European glass-and-steel Modernism that would come to dominate its skylines, and developed seminal works of the style such as the Seagram Building and his Glass House. "All that a nervous sensibility, lively intelligence and a stored mind can do, he does," said architectural historian Vincent Scully...
...Were you nervous? Inside, yes. But as soon as I put my foot on the red carpet I thought, You have come a long...
...George W. Bush's hand wavered in the air as he took the oath of office, pushing against the words "so help me God." The speech that followed was humane and poetic, if uncertainly delivered; the President later admitted he had been pretty nervous. Bush's hand was rock solid last week as the oath was administered, his look calm and confident-but the speech that followed was far less accommodating than the one in 2001. It was, in fact, a fearsome statement of petulant idealism, a challenge to the nation and the world. It was a powerful and admirable...
...system. And in late December, three of China's most outspoken writers were taken from their Beijing homes by police, interrogated and warned to shut up before they were released. One of them, essayist Yu Jie, is regularly followed by plainclothes agents. "All the intellectuals I know are very nervous right now," he says...