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...dedication to the turnaround, he and his wife have made a pact to buy almost all their clothes from the retailer, and everything he is wearing except the tie ("I had clothes before I bought Lord & Taylor") is from his store. Baker's practical approach has made him a quick learner. "You laugh, and it's funny, but the truth is that if you don't wear the product of the store, you don't know certain things," says the 41-year-old entrepreneur. "This is how we're going to make this business better because we live...
...Burns is quick to say that The War, his elegiac, exhaustive 15-hour documentary on World War II (PBS, debuts Sept. 23), is about that war, not today's. But he and co-director/producer Lynn Novick are not naive. "We're not unmindful that it will engage people with questions about the current situation," Burns says. "That's the reason you do history. You're not going to change what happened on June 6, 1944. But you're going to ask questions that are going to help us on Sept...
...know you think this is your moment to step onto the world stage, but we are going to rain on your parade,'" Reeves says. "They know more pressure is coming and are afraid." In the case of Darfur, says Tsinghua's Yan, "yes, the pressure worked." But he is quick to add that just because Western NGOs have had one success, they should not assume they will have another. China remains wedded to the belief that outside forces should not be allowed to dictate what a nation thinks is its own business. "China will never change its fundamental policy...
...advantage of the security forces' being distracted by the protracted battle against Islamist radicals holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, to plant another of the Bekaa's fabled crops: hashish. Hashish farming threatens to gobble up land that could be used for vineyards, and creates a get-rich-quick gangster culture that's at odds with the patient investment necessary to produce wine...
...Ultimately, DeMint and Coburn play an essential role, said Senator John McCain, once a bomb thrower himself. "I remember bomb throwing," McCain said with a quick grin. "It's vital, vital. We are losing the enthusiasm of our base because of our out-of-control spending." Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle forum and one of the leaders of the conservative movement, agrees. "It's very important. They do a good job and we do think spending is out of control," Schlafly said. "The Republican base has not been happy with how the G.O.P. has handled control of Congress...