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...mission in Baghdad, apparently by a suicide truck bomber, would not have been prevented by a greater military presence in Iraq (troops can never guard every potential target), there are other signs that the U.S. Army is stretched too thin. More than a few heads snapped when Peter Schoomaker, the yanked-from-retirement general who is now the Army Chief of Staff, said in his confirmation hearing in late July that he "intuitively" thought "we need more people." His gut feeling apparently changed after Rumsfeld howled that Schoomaker's remarks had been distorted. "There's no daylight between the Secretary...
...Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker's statement that he "intuitively" thought "we need more people...
...convicted of fraud. Why do fugitives flock to this beautiful city? "Perhaps they think we're at the end of the world," ventures a spokesman for the mayor. "Little do they know, we are far more First World than Third. Our international links are strong." --By Simon Robinson and Peter Hawthorne
When Coach CEO Lew Frankfurt hired Krakoff six years ago, he gave him total creative control to oversee everything from store design and merchandising to, well, glove design. Krakoff set about hiring big-gun photographers such as Mario Testino, Mikael Jansson and Peter Lindbergh to shoot the ad campaigns, and then he redesigned all the Coach stores. "The first two years were kind of rocky," he admits. "I had no idea what I was getting into when I started." Now Krakoff has hit his stride, specifically with a series of best-selling handbags, including the Hampton tote and, more recently...
...industry has discovered a new medium for generating a blockbuster: the wearable kind. "It's a whole new future of fashion that's driven by a lot of change and spirit and attitude and pop-culture currency, and those things are usually driven by entertainment artists," says ad executive Peter Arnell, who devised the marketing strategy for Sodi's line...