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...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 essential to the success of luxury labels. "We are going to be watching with great anticipation whether this new concept for Gucci will be valid," said Burt Tansky, chief executive...
...constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But, baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. —Field of Dreams...
...form a swastika. A luscious babe SNAFU meets at a bar is seen noting his indiscretions on a tiny typewriter under the table; another babe's breasts are tape-recorder reels emblazoned with swastikas. "Booby Traps" (Clampett, January 44) has SNAFU cozying up to a lifesize doll; X-ray vision reveals her buttocks and boobs to be round bombs. The message: "If you are a boob, you will be trapped." (Geisel's authorship here is doubted by Cohen, accepted by others. But the cartoon is so funny it'd be a shame to attribute it to someone else...
Jobs have always made or broken the political fortunes of Presidents, yet outsourcing packs a powerful new wallop. That's because it hits middle-and upper-income workers--software engineers, X-ray readers, financial analysts--who thought they were immune to the great job exodus to Mexico and China that has decimated blue collars over the past 25 years. These are people who believed they were safe in a global economy, because they worked with their minds, not with their hands. "Outsourcing is the ultimate nightmare issue for the White House, because it's a problem that every voter understands...
Amid their gloom, Boston Red Sox fans can find a ray of hope in the New York Yankees' big trade for Alex Rodriguez, baseball's highest-paid player. Over the past 15 years, having the richest player on your team has not been a ticket to success (see below). One problem: because of his restructured salary deal, A-Rod's pay won't be No. 1 in 2004. That honor now goes to Manny Ramirez--of the Red Sox. Talk about cursed...