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...social settings, it’s generally okay to answer the phone as long as you keep the phone call short and sweet. But never—under any circumstances—answer the phone while comforting a sobbing friend who is dealing with an uncooperative significant other, parent, TF, or weight-loss regimen...
...find it easier to compete in Australian markets. Most U.S. companies will be exempt from screening by the Foreign Investment Review Board. American intellectual-property rights (such as copyrights, patents and trademarks) have been significantly improved - a windfall for media conglomerates such as News Corp, Disney and Time Warner, parent of the company that publishes Time...
...couples who do not have civil unions or "relationship agreements" have few protections. And gay parents can find themselves with no legal right to see the children they helped raise--only biological and adoptive parents have legal standing. On that basis, in 1999 an appeals court in Illinois denied visitation rights to a woman who had raised a daughter with her partner from birth and continued to support the child after their split. "It's sometimes as though the other parent never existed, which is a horrible thing for a child," says Suzanne Goldberg, a professor of law at Rutgers...
...first rule of business is to know your customer, the second should be to know your board of directors. In an ironic admission for an industry that has embraced customer background checks, the parent company of Smith & Wesson, the second-biggest handgun maker in the U.S., last week acknowledged it recently named James Minder, 74, chairman of the board without knowing he had spent 15 years in Michigan prisons for a string of armed robberies and an attempted prison break. Although his days as a sawed-off-shotgun-toting college student are long gone--he has had a clean record...
...Fill His Shoes? The big trend coming down the Paris catwalks last week had less to do with designs than with designers: the four unknown assistants who were said to be succeeding Tom Ford as creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Although Gucci parent PPR's announcement is not expected until this week, sources close to the Gucci group said a new in-house team of designers would be promoted: Alessandra Facchinetti, Alfreda Giannini and John Ray at Gucci, and Stefano Pilati at YSL. All four are Ford-trained, but none yet possess the star power many consider...