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...robot might hope that a woman's love could make him human. David is the cybergenic triumph of Professor Hobby (William Hurt). Who wouldn't want this perfect child, years past colic and teething, years before the gonadal eruptions of puberty? The chosen "parent" is Henry (Sam Robards), a Cybertronics employee whose wife Monica (Frances O'Connor) has sunk into remorse because their son Martin (Jake Thomas) is in a coma. So here's a pick-me-up for a grieving mother: a machine that looks and acts like a kid--the best kid ever...
...Dunhill, or as it is known since the revamp, Dunhill' (apparently punctuation is key-Burberry used to be Burberry's) was the definition of a brand that had lost its libido. Most people associated the name with smoking, although it divorced the tobacco business 10 years ago. After its parent, Swiss luxury-goods company Richemont, appointed Guy Leymarie to take over the reins, Leymarie hired a designer from Herm?s to do the menswear collections and a couple of smart young architects to do a new store. Leymarie also came up with a tag line...
...with what some of our fashion-oriented consumers were purchasing elsewhere," says Frankfort. "It's meant to be in style today and at the same time tomorrow's classic." As brand renovations go, Coach's has been heroic. The company went public in October, cutting the cord from parent Sara Lee Corp., a cheesecake-and-underwear conglomerate. The stock price has more than doubled. It fairly trumpeted its third-quarter results, tooting that compared with last year, profits were up 156%, to $7.8 million on sales of $131 million. From here, Frankfort wants to use the same model overseas...
...fragile--the images of Julia Roberts, Russell Crowe and just about every other TV and film actor. Located half an hour north of Boston, Tewksbury is home to Avid Technology, whose 1,700-plus employees are resisting the attempts of Japanese giants Sony Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial (the parent company of Panasonic) to penetrate the fast-growing market for digital video-editing software...
...restaurant in Austin, Texas, I hoped it would fade before my deadline. I remember all too well when I was 19, although not as well as I would have if I hadn't gone in for a good deal of underage drinking. More recently, I remember being the parent of a 19-year-old and worrying about her underage drinking. I would have been a lot more concerned, however, had I thought a bunch of outsiders was going to be judging her as a teenager or me as a parent...